59 Quotes by Murasaki Shikibu
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One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties with her merely because she was handsome.
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There are as many sorts of women as there are women.
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In a certain reign there was a lady not of the first rank whom the emperor loved more than any of the others. The grand ladies with high ambitions thought her a presumptuous upstart, and lesser ladies were still more resentful. Everything she did offended someone.
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A night of endless dreams, inconsequent and wild, is this my life; none more worth telling than the rest.
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Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind.
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Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun’s recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much travelling.
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No penance can your hard heart find save such as you long since have taught me to endure.
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It is indeed in many ways more comfortable to belong to that section of society whose action are not publicly canvassed and discussed.
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Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.
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