Murasaki Shikibu — "Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world."
Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.
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From *The Tale of Genji*, an aesthetic observation with a hint of the ethereal.
Date: c. 1000-1012 CE
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