Genji Monogatari Quotes

“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

“To put the point in a different way, the only truly original text is one that has never been read.”
― Dennis Washburn, The Tale of Genji by Shikibu Murasaki, dennis washburn