Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.
There are as many sorts of women as there are women. - Murasaki Shikibu
There are as many sorts of women as there are women.
- Murasaki Shikibu
It is in general the unexplored that attracts us. - Murasaki Shikibu
It is in general the unexplored that attracts us.
How strange a thing is the heart of man! - Murasaki Shikibu
How strange a thing is the heart of man!
No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study… - Murasaki Shikibu
No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study…
Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world. - Murasaki Shikibu
Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.
Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind. - Murasaki Shikibu
Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind.
A night of endless dreams, inconsequent and wild, is this my life; none more worth telling than the rest. - Murasaki Shikibu
A night of endless dreams, inconsequent and wild, is this my life; none more worth telling than the rest.
In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story. - Murasaki Shikibu
In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.
There is more here than meets the eye. - Murasaki Shikibu
There is more here than meets the eye.
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