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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.

~ Yoshida Kenkō

Yoshida Kenkō Books Contemplation Reading

Looking back on months and years of intimacy, to feel that your friend, while you still remember the moving words you exchanged, is yet growing distant and living in a world apart—all this is sadder far than partings brought by death.

~ Yoshida Kenkō

Yoshida Kenkō Friendship Melancholy Parting

Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking on the rain, to lower the blinds and be unaware of the passing of the spring - these are even more deeply moving. Branches about to blossom or gardens strewn with flowers are worthier of our admiration.

~ Yoshida Kenkō

Yoshida Kenkō Beauty Blossom Emotion Longing Moon Rain Spring Transience

I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky

~ Yoshida Kenkō

Yoshida Kenkō Life Nature Sky

What kind of man will feel depressed at being idle? There is nothing finer than to be alone with nothing to distract him.If you follow the ways of the world, your heart will be drawn to its sensual defilements and easily led astray; if you go among people, your words will be guided by others' responses rather than come from your heart. There is nothing firm or stable in a life spent between larking about together and quarreling exuberant one moment, aggrieved and resentful the next. You are forever pondering pros and cons, endlessly absorbed in questions of gain and loss. And on top of delusion comes drunkenness, and in that drunkenness you dream.

~ Yoshida Kenkō

Yoshida Kenkō Life Philosophical
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