Lori

“[F]ew people have never hurt anyone or been guilty of any serious lapse [...]”
― Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji

“Perhaps this was indeed the way so remarkably accomplished a man was destined to meet his end,' he replied, 'because two or three years ago he began looking very downcast and melancholy, and I often warned him, despite my own want of sense, that a man who sees too far into life and thinks about things too deeply becomes too detached from them and to be attractive and only loses whatever luster he may have had, but he seemed merely to find my opinion shallow.”
― Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji