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• Some ... have imagined that by arousing a baseless suspicion in the mind of the beloved we can revive a waning devotion. But this experiment is very dangerous. Those who recommend it are confident that so long as resentment is groundless one need only suffer it in silence and all will soon be well. I have observed however that this is by no means the case.

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  Jealousy, Mean, Long

  Murasaki Shikibu (2011). “Tale of Genji”, p.56, Tuttle Publishing

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• Stepmothers in books usually behave very spitefully towards the children entrusted to them. But he was now learning by his own experience that in real life this does not always happen.

  Murasaki Shikibu

  Family, Children, Real

  Murasaki Shikibu (2011). “The Tale of Genji”, p.642, Tuttle Publishing

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• How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only to please the outward gaze

  Murasaki Shikibu

  Heart, Air, Judging

  Murasaki Shikibu (2011). “The Tale of Genji”, p.62, Tuttle Publishing

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• Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.

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  Family, Intimacy, Difficult

  Lady Murasaki, Murasaki Shikibu, Arthur Waley (2000). “The Tale of Genji”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• It is indeed in many ways more comfortable to belong to that section of society whose action are not publicly canvassed and discussed

  Murasaki Shikibu

  Way, Action, Sections

  Murasaki Shikibu (2011). “The Tale of Genji”, p.266, Tuttle Publishing

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• You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this frail world's decay.

  Murasaki Shikibu

  Country, Sky, Looks

  Murasaki Shikibu (1935). “Blue trousers. The lady of the boat. The bridge of dreams”

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