Tao Te Ching

“Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from. It is like a two-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself… Once it has taken root in your heart, hatred is the most difficult think in the world to shake off.”

— Haruki Murakami 1949 CE – via Jay Rubin
from Wind-Up Bird Chronicle