Yoshida Kenkō Quotes

Knowledge leads to deception; talent and ability only serve to increase earthly desires.

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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.

1901

It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.

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