Murasaki Shikibu Quotes
Murasaki Shikibu Quotes
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 it.
2906 The number of those who have nothing to recommend them and of those in whom nothing but good can be found is probably equal
1222 Let us be sure that the lady of our choice possesses certain tangible qualities that we admire; and if in other ways she falls short of our ideal, we must be patient and call to mind those qualities that first induced us to begin our courting.
4233 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.
4186 Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.
1497 En asuntos de arte la modestia no es una virtud.
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