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Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.

— Murasaki Shikibu

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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.

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?

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