Sei Shonagon Quotes
- In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.
- 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…
- A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if he knew everything.
- There is nothing in the whole world so painful as feeling that one is not liked.
- One is telling a story about old times when someone breaks in with a little detail that he happens to know, implying that one's own…
- To wash one's hair, make one's toilet, and put on scented robes; even if not a soul sees one, these preparations still produce an inner…
- There is nothing in the whole world so painful as feeling that one is not liked. It always seems to me that people who hate…