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Quotation from The Pillow-Book of Sei Shōnagon by Sei Shōnagon
“To pick up a letter that someone has torn up and thrown away, and find that one can fit the pieces together well enough to make sense.”
The Pillow-Book of Sei Shōnagon, Things that make one Happy, trans. Arthur Waley (1928)
Another of her happy things.
Citation: "To pick up a letter that someone has torn up and thrown away, and find that one can fit the pieces together well enough to make sense." — Sei Shōnagon, The Pillow-Book of Sei Shōnagon, Things that make one Happy, trans. Arthur Waley (1928). (id sei-shonagon-the-pillow-book-q2)
