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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.

— Murasaki Shikibu

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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?

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