There is a tendency among men as well as women ... so soon as they have acquired a little knowledge of some kind, to want to display it to the best advantage.
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!
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.
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…
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.
Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world. - Murasaki Shikibu
Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.
There is more here than meets the eye. - Murasaki Shikibu
There is more here than meets the eye.
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