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Murasaki Shikibu was Japanese novelist and poet (c. 973 – c. 1014). Murasaki Shikibu , or Shijo , was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in the Heian period. She was best known as the author of The Tale of Genji, widely considered to be one of the world's first novels, written in Japanese between about 1000 and 1012. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Truth — Meditations on honesty, authenticity, and the search for truth

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