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History teaches us that the most universally inspiring Jews, I mean those who contributed something to humanity rather than merely to their own people or even just to themselves, were motivated by some form of self-hate.
Matthew Yglesias » Is The Universe a Hologram? Should We Care? 2010
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This sort of implanted self-hate is one of the reasons why I care so much about seeing black faces in comics.
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And they struggle with a core emptiness and at times such feelings of failure and self-hate, that they simply wish for their own death and the end of the whole tortured process.
Diana Kirschner: The Power of Hate, Part I Diana Kirschner 2011
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Just as the actress Portia de Rossi does in her upcoming memoir "Unbearable Lightness" about her body dysmorphia, Mr. Springfield chronicles his bouts of depression, self-hate and even a suicide attempt as a teenager.
Shopping With Springfield Marshall Heyman 2010
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And they struggle with a core emptiness and at times such feelings of failure and self-hate, that they simply wish for their own death and the end of the whole tortured process.
Diana Kirschner: The Power of Hate, Part I Diana Kirschner 2011
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It must be due to the self-hate and self-loathing that is endemic among liberals.
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Two weeks before the American poet Hart Crane killed himself, filled with self-hate, he slashed to bits with a knife the painting a friend, the Mexican artist David Siqueiros, painted of him, beginning with his eyes.
History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011
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No other poem I know expresses the sense of hopelessness, self-hate—the self, like an animal, belongs caged behind bars—and despair of the suicide as profoundly as “Tulips.”
History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011
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I can understand their self-hate and self-loathing, because liberals are nothing, have nothing, stand for nothing and believe in nothing.
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The price might be something only they know, an addiction or self-hate or a lack of compassion for others.
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