Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.

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Murasaki Shikibu

I leave you, to go the road we all must go. The road I would choose, if only I could, is the other

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Murasaki Shikibu

If you are scorched earth, I will be warm rain

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Murasaki Shikibu

It is in general the unexplored that attracts us.

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Murasaki Shikibu

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.

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Murasaki Shikibu

farewell' is a monster among words, and never yet sounded kindly in any ear.

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Murasaki Shikibu

The world know it not; but you, Autumn, I confess it: your wind at night-fall stabs deep into my heart

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Murasaki Shikibu

Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams

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Murasaki Shikibu

You are here to remind me of someone I long for, and what is it you long for yourself? We must have been together in an earlier life, you and I.

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Murasaki Shikibu