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“O seer who roams the vastness of the heavens, go and find for me a soul I now seek in vain even when I chance to dream."
「大空を自在に通うという幻術士よ。夢にさえ現れて来ぬあの人の魂の行方を捜し出しておくれ。」”
― The Tale of Genji
「大空を自在に通うという幻術士よ。夢にさえ現れて来ぬあの人の魂の行方を捜し出しておくれ。」”
― The Tale of Genji
“Think about them: the waves of change and alteration, endlessly breaking. And see our brief mortality for what it is.”
― Stoic Collection: Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, Seneca's On the Brevity of Life, Virgil's Aeneid, Epictetus' The Manual for Living, Hesiod's Works and Days, & Cicero's On Friendship
― Stoic Collection: Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, Seneca's On the Brevity of Life, Virgil's Aeneid, Epictetus' The Manual for Living, Hesiod's Works and Days, & Cicero's On Friendship
“Chrysanthemum dew from the morning we both knew in life together moistens for me this autumn sleeves that I must wear alone.”
― The Tale of Genji
― The Tale of Genji
“The impediment to action advances action.”
― Marcus Aurelius Meditations
― Marcus Aurelius Meditations
“To say that nothing is true, is to realize that the foundations of society are fragile, and that we must be the shepherds of our own civilization. To say that everything is permitted, is to understand that we are the architects of our actions, and that we must live with their consequences, whether glorious or tragic.”
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