The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest, not fashioned according to any precept or law. When times change, the carver too will change his style… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
There is a tendency among men as well as women ... so soon as they have acquired a little knowledge of some kind, to… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
In a certain reign there was a lady not of the first rank whom the emperor loved more than any of the others. The… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
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… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
“The world know it not; but you, Autumn, I confess it: your wind at night-fall stabs deep into my heart” — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
“Well, we never expected this!" they all say. "No one liked her. They all said she was pretentious, awkward, difficult to approach, prickly, too… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
Stepmothers in books usually behave very spitefully towards the children entrusted to them. But he was now learning by his own experience that in… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
Some ... have imagined that by arousing a baseless suspicion in the mind of the beloved we can revive a waning devotion. But this… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
A night of endless dreams, inconsequent and wild, is this my life; none more worth telling than the rest. — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
“We are not told of things that happened to specific people exactly as they happened; but the beginning is when there are good things… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
