Edzy

“My only wish is that men in the world below may sometimes pick up this tale when they are recovering from sleep or drunkenness, or when they wish to escape from business worries or a fit of the dumps, and in doing so find not only mental refreshment but even perhaps, if they will heed its lesson and abandon their vain and frivolous pursuits, some small arrest in the deterioration of their vital forces.”
― Cao Xueqin, The Golden Days

“To hold the garden’s fragrance in one vase, And see all autumn in a single spray?”
― Cao Xueqin, The Crab-Flower Club

“It is very unkind of you to feel this way. Any woman should properly yield, it seems to me, even a complete stranger, because that is the way of the world.... All I desire is solace from the flood of memories that overwhelms me.”
― Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji

“Most writers are perfectly normal in the head and just carry on like wild men; I behave normally but I'm sick inside.”
― Yukio Mishima