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If letters did not exist, wha...

If letters did not exist, what dark depressions would come over one! When one has been worrying about something and wants to tell a certain person about it, what a relief it is to put it all down in a letter! Still greater is one's joy when a reply arrives. At that moment a letter really seems like an elixir of life.

Sei Shonagon 13 quotes

In life there are two things ...

In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.

Sei Shonagon 13 quotes

Pleasing things: finding a la...

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 one has enjoyed. But often it is a disappointment.

Sei Shonagon 13 quotes

If someone with whom one is h...

If someone with whom one is having an affair keeps on mentioning some woman whom he knew in the past, however long ago it is since they separated, one is always irritated.

Sei Shonagon 13 quotes

A man who has nothing in parti...

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

Sei Shonagon 13 quotes

To wash one's hair, make one's...

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 pleasure.

Sei Shonagon 13 quotes

A good lover will behave just ...

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

Sei Shonagon 13 quotes

One is telling a story about o...

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 version is inaccurate Ђ' disgusting behavior!

Sei Shonagon 13 quotes

There is nothing in the whole ...

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

Sei Shonagon 13 quotes

Pleasing things: finding a lar...

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 one has enjoyed. But often it is a disappointment.

Sei Shonagon 13 quotes

If someone with whom one is ha...

If someone with whom one is having an affair keeps on mentioning some woman whom he knew in the past, however long ago it is since they separated, one is always irritated.

Sei Shonagon 13 quotes

If letters did not exist, what...

If letters did not exist, what dark depressions would come over one! When one has been worrying about something and wants to tell a certain person about it, what a relief it is to put it all down in a letter! Still greater is one's joy when a reply arrives. At that moment a letter really seems like an elixir of life.

Sei Shonagon 13 quotes

In life there are two things w...

In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.

Sei Shonagon 13 quotes

'Pleasing things: finding a l...

'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 one has enjoyed. But often it is a disappointment.'
- Sei Shōnagon (The Pillow Book)

Sei Shonagon 13 quotes

'A man who has nothing in par...

'A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if he knew everything.'
- Sei Shōnagon (The Pillow Book)

Sei Shonagon 13 quotes

' 134. Letters are Commonplac...

' 134. Letters are Commonplace
Letters are commonplace enough, yet what splendid things they are! When someone is in a distant province and one is worried about him, and then a letter suddenly arrives, one feels as though one were seeing him face to face. Again, it is a great comfort to have expressed one's feelings in a letter even though one knows it cannot yet have arrived. If letters did not exist, what dark depressions would come over one! When one has been worrying about something and wants to tell a certain person about it, what a relief it is to put it all down in a letter! Still greater is one's joy when a reply arrives. At that moment a letter really seems like an elixir of life.'
- Sei Shōnagon (The Pillow Book)

Sei Shonagon 13 quotes

There is nothing in the whole ...

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 me must be suffering from some kind of lunacy.

Sei Shonagon 13 quotes

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