"Are we to look at cherry blossoms only……" — Yoshida Kenko
"Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking on the rain, to lower the blinds and be unaware of the passing of the spring - these are even more deeply moving. Branches about to blossom or gardens strewn with flowers are worthier of our admiration."
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Yoshida Kenko
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18 Quotes by Yoshida Kenko
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On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while chatting at…
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Ambition never comes to an end.
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Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing but the blossoms of the heart no wind can…
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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of…
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One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good…
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A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only…
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If life were eternal, all interest and anticipation would vanish. It is uncertainty which lends it fascination.
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You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects…
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Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.
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The hour of death waits for no order. Death does not even come from the front. It is ever pressing…
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The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to…
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In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one…
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