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There is nothing in the whole world so painful as feeling that one is not liked. It always seems to me that people who…

— Sei Shonagon

“ 134. Letters are Commonplace Letters are commonplace enough, yet what splendid things they are! When someone is in a distant province and one…

— Sei Shonagon

“If writing did not exist, what terrible depressions we should suffer from.”

— Sei Shōnagon

“71. Rare Things -- A son-in-law who's praised by his wife's father. Likewise, a wife who's loved by her mother-in-law. A pair of silver…

— Sei Shōnagon

“Equally disagreeable is the man who, when leaving in the middle of the night, takes care to fasten the cord of his headdress. This…

— Sei Shōnagon

A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if he knew everything.

— Sei Shonagon

“ In spring it is the dawn that is most beautiful. As the light creeps over the hills, their outlines are dyed a faint…

— Sei Shônagon

“ 64. Surprising and Distressing Things While one is cleaning a decorative comb, something catches in the teeth and the comb breaks. A carriage…

— Sei Shonagon

A good lover will behave just as elegantly at dawn as at any other time.

— Sei Shonagon

There is nothing in the whole world so painful as feeling that one is not liked.

— 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…

— Sei Shonagon

If letters did not exist, what dark depressions would come over one! When one has been worrying about something and wants to tell a…

— Sei Shonagon