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Sei Shonagon Biography

Sei Shōnagon (清少納言, lesser councilor of state Sei), (c. 966–1017/1025) was a Japanese author, poet and a court lady who served the Empress Teishi (Sadako) around the year 1000 during the middle Heian period. She is the author of The Pillow Book (枕草子, makura no sōshi).

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

Everything, Men, Nothing, Particular, Subjects

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

Flesh, Life, Literature, Things, Two

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.

Having, Jealousy, Keeps, Long Ago, Past, Woman

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

Behave, Dawn, Good Love, Lover, Lovers, Time

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.

Dark, Joy, Person, Tell, Worry, Worrying

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.

Disappointment, Enjoyed, Firsts, Numbers, Tale

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.

Hair, Produce, Self, Soul, Toilet

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!

Behavior, Details, Inaccurate, Littles, Stories, Version

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

Feelings, Painful, Whole, World

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