If you have an enemy of any kind, if you shelter recurring resentful thoughts or feelings — however wise your well-considered reason may be — so that you surrender yourself to the embrace of a suffering induced by your own negative considerations… be warned: in this nature is where hatred hides; it abides there, awaiting the incoming tide of some unwanted interaction with life so that it can pick up, and carry off its consort into the hell that it loves.

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