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The Tales of Ise

by Peter Macmillan

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Sep 12, 2026 09:32PM

“Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first volume one has enjoyed. But often it is a disappointment.”
― Sei Shōnagon, The Pillow Book

tags: books, enjoyment, reading, stories

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“There is something going on in the sky like a decomposition, like a corruption of the air, which remains as still as ever. After all, mere clouds, which may or may not hold wind or rain. Strange that it should trouble me so. I feel as if all my sins had found me out.”
― Joseph Conrad, The Shadow-Line

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“It seems to me that all my life before that momentous day is infinitely remote, a fading memory of light-hearted youth, something on the other side of a shadow.”
― Joseph Conrad, The Shadow-Line

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