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“Watching the moon
at dawn,
solitary, mid-sky,
I knew myself completely,
no part left out.”

― Izumi Shikibu, The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan
tags: oneness
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