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Murasaki Shikibu

Murasaki Shikibu (c. 970s-1014?)

“Character is all that really matters in the end.”

  • From Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji (chapter 36), translated by Royall Tyler (Penguin Classics, 2003).

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