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.
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
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.
It is in general the unexplored that attracts us. - Murasaki Shikibu
It is in general the unexplored that attracts us.
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.
Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind. - Murasaki Shikibu
Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind.
How strange a thing is the heart of man! - Murasaki Shikibu
How strange a thing is the heart of man!
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.
There is more here than meets the eye. - Murasaki Shikibu
There is more here than meets the eye.
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