Top 8 Sei Shōnagon Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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.”

— Sei Shōnagon

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

— Sei Shōnagon

3. “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.”

— Sei Shōnagon

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

— Sei Shōnagon

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

— Sei Shōnagon

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

— Sei Shōnagon

8. “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.”

— Sei Shōnagon

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