“Well, you see, she was saintly but she wasn't a saint. No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to hate him and his saints they have to find something like themselves and pretend it's God and hate that. I suppose you think that's all bosh.”
Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
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