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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Because you cannot see him, God is everywhere.

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The woman was silent, her eyes on the floor. Shimamura had come to a point where he knew he was only parading his masculine shamelessness, and yet it seemed likely enough that the woman was familiar with the failing and need not be shocked by it. He looked at her. Perhaps it was the rich lashes of the downcast eyes that made her face seem warm and sensuous. She shook her head very slightly, and again a faint blush spread over her face.

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And I can't complain. After all, only women are able really to love.

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I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love.

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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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The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night.

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I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.

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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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