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title: "1 Long love Quotes By Murasaki Shikibu"
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> [The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murasaki-shikibu/the-memories-of-long-love-gather-like-drifting-snow-poignant-as-the/)

[Murasaki Shikibu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murasaki-shikibu/)

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## Other authors on Long love

## More by Murasaki Shikibu

> [It is in general the unexplored that attracts us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murasaki-shikibu/it-is-in-general-the-unexplored-that-attracts-us/)

[Murasaki Shikibu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murasaki-shikibu/)

> [There is a tendency among men as well as women ... so soon as they have acquired a little knowledge of some kind, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murasaki-shikibu/there-is-a-tendency-among-men-as-well-as-women-so-soon-as-they-have/)

[Murasaki Shikibu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murasaki-shikibu/)

> [In a certain reign there was a lady not of the first rank whom the emperor loved more than any of the others. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murasaki-shikibu/in-a-certain-reign-there-was-a-lady-not-of-the-first-rank-whom-the/)

[Murasaki Shikibu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murasaki-shikibu/)

> [I have a theory of my own about what the art of the novel is, and how it came into being…It happens because the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murasaki-shikibu/i-have-a-theory-of-my-own-about-what-the-art-of-the-novel-is-and-how/)

[Murasaki Shikibu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murasaki-shikibu/)

> [“The world know it not; but you, Autumn, I confess it: your wind at night-fall stabs deep into my heart”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murasaki-shikibu/the-world-know-it-not-but-you-autumn-i-confess-it-your-wind-at-night/)

[Murasaki Shikibu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murasaki-shikibu/)

> [“Well, we never expected this!" they all say. "No one liked her. They all said she was pretentious, awkward, difficult to approach, prickly, too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murasaki-shikibu/well-we-never-expected-this-they-all-say-no-one-liked-her-they-all/)

[Murasaki Shikibu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murasaki-shikibu/)

> [There is more here than meets the eye.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murasaki-shikibu/there-is-more-here-than-meets-the-eye/)

[Murasaki Shikibu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murasaki-shikibu/)

> [Stepmothers in books usually behave very spitefully towards the children entrusted to them. But he was now learning by his own experience that in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murasaki-shikibu/stepmothers-in-books-usually-behave-very-spitefully-towards-the/)

[Murasaki Shikibu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murasaki-shikibu/)

> [How strange a thing is the heart of man!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murasaki-shikibu/how-strange-a-thing-is-the-heart-of-man/)

[Murasaki Shikibu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murasaki-shikibu/)

> [Some ... have imagined that by arousing a baseless suspicion in the mind of the beloved we can revive a waning devotion. But this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murasaki-shikibu/some-have-imagined-that-by-arousing-a-baseless-suspicion-in-the-mind/)

[Murasaki Shikibu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murasaki-shikibu/)

> [A night of endless dreams, inconsequent and wild, is this my life; none more worth telling than the rest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murasaki-shikibu/a-night-of-endless-dreams-inconsequent-and-wild-is-this-my-life-none/)

[Murasaki Shikibu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murasaki-shikibu/)

> [“We are not told of things that happened to specific people exactly as they happened; but the beginning is when there are good things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murasaki-shikibu/we-are-not-told-of-things-that-happened-to-specific-people-exactly-as/)

[Murasaki Shikibu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murasaki-shikibu/)

> [“I leave you, to go the road we all must go. The road I would choose, if only I could, is the other.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murasaki-shikibu/i-leave-you-to-go-the-road-we-all-must-go-the-road-i-would-choose-if/)

[Murasaki Shikibu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murasaki-shikibu/)

> [Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murasaki-shikibu/though-the-body-moves-the-soul-may-stay-behind/)

[Murasaki Shikibu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murasaki-shikibu/)

> [It is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a feeling of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murasaki-shikibu/it-is-useless-to-talk-with-those-who-do-not-understand-one-and/)

[Murasaki Shikibu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murasaki-shikibu/)

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