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Murasaki Shikibu quotes: Now the end has come, and I am filled with sorrow that our ways must part: the path I would rather take is the one that leads to life.

Now the end has come, and I am filled with sorrow that our ways must part: the path I would rather take is the one that leads to life.

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: Life is full of uncertainties, perhanps one day some unforeseen circumstance would bring her into his life once more

Life is full of uncertainties, perhanps one day some unforeseen circumstance would bring her into his life once more

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: What need have I for a palace? Rather to lie with you where the weeds grow thick.

What need have I for a palace? Rather to lie with you where the weeds grow thick.

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: No penance can your hard heart find save such as you long since have taught me to endure

No penance can your hard heart find save such as you long since have taught me to endure

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: Even those people who have no sorrow of their own often feel melancholy from the circumstances in which they are placed.

Even those people who have no sorrow of their own often feel melancholy from the circumstances in which they are placed.

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: People who do not get into scrapes are a great deal less interesting than those who do.

People who do not get into scrapes are a great deal less interesting than those who do.

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.

Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.

Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: If you are scorched earth, I will be warm rain.

If you are scorched earth, I will be warm rain.

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: How strange a thing is the heart of man!

How strange a thing is the heart of man!

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: with local administration. These ladies are often very attractive, and are not seldom introduced at Court and enjoy high favor." "And successes depend

with local administration. These ladies are often very attractive, and are not seldom introduced at Court and enjoy high favor." "And successes depend

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: The number of those who have nothing to recommend them and of those in whom nothing but good can be found is probably equal

The number of those who have nothing to recommend them and of those in whom nothing but good can be found is probably equal

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: At a guess I see that you may indeed be he: the light silver dew brings to clothe in loveliness a twilight beauty flower.

At a guess I see that you may indeed be he: the light silver dew brings to clothe in loveliness a twilight beauty flower.

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: The monotony stirs many bitter recollections

The monotony stirs many bitter recollections

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep.

The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep.

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: Remember "the unmoored boat floats about.

Remember "the unmoored boat floats about.

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: Autumn is no time to lie alone

Autumn is no time to lie alone

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: You are here to remind me of someone I long for, and what is it you long for yourself? We must have been together in an earlier life, you and

You are here to remind me of someone I long for, and what is it you long for yourself? We must have been together in an earlier life, you and I.

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: I wish you could understand me, but of course it is not the way of this world that we are ever completely understood.

I wish you could understand me, but of course it is not the way of this world that we are ever completely understood.

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: Your coldness serves to emphasize my own inadequacy, and makes me feel that the best solution might be to expire.

Your coldness serves to emphasize my own inadequacy, and makes me feel that the best solution might be to expire.

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: The world know it not; but you, Autumn, I confess it: your wind at night-fall stabs deep into my heart

The world know it not; but you, Autumn, I confess it: your wind at night-fall stabs deep into my heart

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: There are as many sorts of women as there are women.

There are as many sorts of women as there are women.

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: When in my present lonely lot, I feel my past has not been free From sins which I remember not, I dread more, what to come, may be.

When in my present lonely lot, I feel my past has not been free From sins which I remember not, I dread more, what to come, may be.

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: My dwelling is but a rustic cottage, but still I should like you to see, at least, the pretty mountain streamlet which waters my garden.

My dwelling is but a rustic cottage, but still I should like you to see, at least, the pretty mountain streamlet which waters my garden.

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: I leave you, to go the road we all must go. The road I would choose, if only I could, is the other.

I leave you, to go the road we all must go. The road I would choose, if only I could, is the other.

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: It is in general the unexplored that attracts us ...

It is in general the unexplored that attracts us ...

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind.

Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind.

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.

In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: It is indeed in many ways more comfortable to belong to that section of society whose action are not publicly canvassed and discussed

It is indeed in many ways more comfortable to belong to that section of society whose action are not publicly canvassed and discussed

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this frail world's decay.

You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this frail world's decay.

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: Who has told you that the fruit belies the flower? For the fruit you have not tasted, and the flower you know but by report.

Who has told you that the fruit belies the flower? For the fruit you have not tasted, and the flower you know but by report.

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: If like the leaf of the wisteria through which the sun darts his rays transparently you give your heart to me, I will no longer distrust you

If like the leaf of the wisteria through which the sun darts his rays transparently you give your heart to me, I will no longer distrust you

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.

Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: A night of endless dreams, inconsequent and wild, is this my life; none more worth telling than the rest.

A night of endless dreams, inconsequent and wild, is this my life; none more worth telling than the rest.

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune.

Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune.

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: Why do you grieve so uselessly? Every uncertainty is the result of a certainty. There is nothing in this world really to be lamented.

Why do you grieve so uselessly? Every uncertainty is the result of a certainty. There is nothing in this world really to be lamented.

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: [F]ew people have never hurt anyone or been guilty of any serious lapse [...]

[F]ew people have never hurt anyone or been guilty of any serious lapse [...]

Murasaki Shikibu quotes: There is more here than meets the eye.

There is more here than meets the eye.