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Sunday July 5, 2015
This lonely house is but a tiny hut but I somehow love it. Should anyone doubt the truth of my words let him look to the fishes and the birds. Fish do not weary of water, but unless one is a fish one does not know why. Birds long for the woods, but unless one is a bird one does not know why. The joys of solitude are similar. Who could understand them without having lived here?
—Kamo No Chomei
Japanese writer (circa 1155)
Japanese writer (circa 1155)
Source: "An Account of My
Hut" in Anthology of Japanese Literature, edited by Donald Keene
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