There is nothing in the whole world so painful as feeling that one is not liked. It always seems to me that people who hate me must be suffering from some strange form of lunacy.
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Original Citation
Sei Shonagon. 枕草子 [The Pillow Book]. c. 1002.
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Current Citation
Sei Shonagon. The Pillow Book, translated by Meredith McKinney. Penguin Classics, 2007.
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