"He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin."

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Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

— Thomas Merton