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More Quotes by Yasunari Kawabata
A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance.
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
The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke.
Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.
Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.
Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger.
Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words.
Seeing the moon, he becomes the moon, the moon seen by him becomes him. He sinks into nature, becomes one with nature. The light of the "clear heart" of the priest, seated in the meditation hall in the darkness before the dawn, becomes for the dawn moon its own light.
And I can't complain. After all, only women are able really to love.
Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate.
