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Top 8 Sei Shōnagon Quotes (2025 Update)

Sei Shōnagon Quote: “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.”

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

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

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

Sei Shōnagon Quote: “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.”

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

Sei Shōnagon Quote: “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!”

4. “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!”

— Sei Shōnagon

Sei Shōnagon Quote: “In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.”

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

— Sei Shōnagon

Sei Shōnagon Quote: “There is nothing in the whole world so painful as feeling that one is not liked.”

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

— Sei Shōnagon

Sei Shōnagon Quote: “A good lover will behave just as elegantly at dawn as at any other time.”

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

— Sei Shōnagon

Sei Shōnagon Quote: “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.”

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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