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“My dwelling is but a rustic cottage, but still I should like you to see, at least, the pretty mountain streamlet which waters my garden.”
― Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji

“Let us be sure that the lady of our choice possesses certain tangible qualities that we admire; and if in other ways she falls short of our ideal, we must be patient and call to mind those qualities that first induced us to begin our courting.”
― Lady Murasaki Shikibu

“What need have I for a palace? Rather to lie with you where the weeds grow thick.”
― Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji

“When in my present lonely lot, I feel my past has not been free From sins which I remember not, I dread more, what to come, may be.”
― Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji