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One Quotes by Sei Shonagon
- 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…
- 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…
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