“I have never thought there was much to be said in favor of dragging on long after all one's friends were dead.”

Source: Tale of Genji, The Tale of Genji, trans. Arthur Waley, Ch. 29: The Royal Visit

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Japanese novelist, poet during the Heian period. best known… 973–1014

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