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Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.

Yasunari Kawabata

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Yasunari Kawabata
Age: 72 †
Born: 1899
Born: June 11
Died: 1972
Died: April 16
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Ōsaka
Expressing
Primarily
Goodness
Beauty
Language
Human
Humans

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It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for us
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The winter moon becomes a companion, the heart of the priest, sunk in meditation upon religion and philosophy, there in the mountain hall, is engaged in a delicate interplay and exchange with the moon and it is this of which the poet sings.
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People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development.
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Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings every human being flows through time in a different way.
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But a haiku by Buson came into his mind: 'I try to forget this senile love a chilly autumn shower.' The gloom only grew denser.
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A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance.
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They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again.
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THE TRAIN came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.
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The labor into which a heart has poured its whole love--where will it have its say, to excite and inspire, and when?
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A child walked by, rolling a metal hoop that made a sound of autumn.
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I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.
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Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.
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Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words.
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The road was frozen. The village lay quiet under the cold sky. Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono and tucked it into her obi. The moon shone like a blade frozen in blue ice.
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Maybe vagueness has been good for me. The word means two different things in Tokyo and Osaka, you know. In Tokyo it means stupidity, but in Osaka they talk about vagueness in a painting and in a game of Go.
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Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar – the roaring at the center, like a distant clap of thunder.
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I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love.
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Because you cannot see him, God is everywhere.
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The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke.
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From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.
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