Passages from 

The Tale of Genji (潤一郎訳源氏物語)

It was a long novel full of different love stories. I found it as a Japanese version of "One Thousand and One Nights", which is not my favorite kind of books. Even though I didn't finish the whole book, I still can say it was a nice and different experience. Here are some passages I loved:

"We vowed that we would go together down the road we all must go. You must not leave me behind."

She looked sadly up at him. "if I had suspected that it would be so--" She was gasping for breath. 

"I leave you, to go the road we all must go. The road I would choose, if only I could, is the other."

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"The autumn night is too short to contain my tears...

Though songs of bell cricket weary, fall into silence"

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"Sad are the insect songs among the reeds.

 More sadly yet falls the dew from above the clouds."

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"In the sky, as birds that share a wing. 

On earth, as trees that share a branch."

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"The song of everlasting sorrow"

The jeweled blinds are drawn, the morning is dark.

I had not thought I would not even dream.

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"So heavy the burden I bring with me from the past,

I doubt that I should make these vows for the future."

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"So few and scattered the nights, so few the dreams. 

Would that the dream tonight might take me with it."

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"Like the open boat that plies the familiar canal,

I find that I come again and again to you."

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"Alone, in secret, I hurry to meeting Hill.

After so many years, the gate still holds me back." 

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"What legacy do we bring from former lives

That loneliness should be our lot in this one?"

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"I had not known the sudden loneliness

Of having it vanish, the moon in the sky of dawns."

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"A distant glimpse of the river of Lustration.

His coldness is the measure of my sorrow."

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"Vine of meeting indeed! a useless weed,

A mouthing, its name, of empty promises."

Enjoy the book :) 

                                                                                                                              Merry