Sei Shōnagon Quotes

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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 hate me must be suffering from some strange form of lunacy.

Sei Shōnagon

Things That Lose by Being Painted
Pinks, cherry blossoms, yellow roses. Men or women who are praised in romances as being beautiful. Things That Gain by Being Painted
Pines. Autumn fields. Mountain villages and paths. Cranes and deer. A very cold winter scene; an unspeakably hot summer scene.

Sei Shōnagon

Splendid Things
Chinese brocade. A sword with a decorated scabbard. The grain of the wood in a Buddhist statue. Long flowering branches of beautifully coloured wistaria entwined about a pine tree.

Sei Shōnagon

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 — disgusting behavior!

Sei Shōnagon

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

Sei Shōnagon

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

Sei Shōnagon

Sei Shōnagon

Sei Shōnagon

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Born: 966

Died: 1025 (aged 59)

Bio: Sei Shōnagon was a Japanese author, poet and a court lady who served the Empress Teishi around the year 1000 during the middle Heian period. She is the author of The Pillow Book.

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