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973–1031 Japan
Murasaki Shikibu (紫 式部 Murasaki Shikibu, c. 973 or 978 – c. 1014 or 1031) was a novelist, poet, and servant of the imperial court during the Heian period of Japan. She is the author of the Tale of Genji.
Also known as: Lady Murasaki, The Tale of Genji
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Though the snow-drifts of Yoshino were heaped across his path, doubt not that whither his heart is set, his footsteps shall tread out their way.
Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.
Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.
It is in general the unexplored that attracts us.
I have never thought there was much to be said in favor of dragging on long after all one's friends were dead.
Does it not move you strangely, the love-bird's cry, tonight when, like the drifting snow, memory piles up on memory?
If they were not fundamentally evil, they would not have been born as women at all.
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.
Anything whatsoever may become the subject of a novel, provided only that it happens in this mundane life and not in some fairyland beyond our human ken.
Think not that I have come in quest of common flowers; but rather to bemoan the loss of one whose scent has vanished from the air.
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.
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.
Unforgettably horrible is the naked body. It really does not have the slightest charm.
It is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a feeling of superiority. Especially one-sided persons are troublesome. Few are accomplished in many arts and most cling narrowly to their own opinion.
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