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I would guess that he thought and thought for at least ten years before he came up with a stupendous idea, that glory of man's inventiveness, pants.
— Soseki Natsume
People may make fun of me because I'm wearing something odd, but it's still good to be alive.
— Soseki Natsume
I'll worry about tomorrow tomorrow.
— Soseki Natsume
Where joy grows deep, sorrow must deepen; the greater one's pleasures, the greater the pain.
— Soseki Natsume
Your addiction to thinking will come back to haunt you.
— Soseki Natsume
If whiskers establish sauciness, every cat is impudent.
— Soseki Natsume
Even bigger than Japan is the inside of your head.
— Soseki Natsume
Had I the time to keep a diary, I'd use that time to better effect; sleeping on the veranda.
— Soseki Natsume
Tea is, in fact, a marvelous drink. To those who spurn it on the grounds of insomnia, I say that it's better to be deprived of sleep than of tea.
— Soseki Natsume
A world where falling in love requires marrying is a world where novels require reading from beginning to end.
— Soseki Natsume
The memory of having sat at someone's feet will later make you want to trample him underfoot.
— Soseki Natsume
People forget their faces when they're busy.
— Soseki Natsume
Anyone who sang the praises of undying love in this day and age belonged to the first rank of hypocrites in Daisuke's estimate.
— Soseki Natsume
The average novel invariably reads like a detective's report. It is drab and tedious because it is never objective.
— Soseki Natsume
The poet has an obligation to dissect his own corpse and reveal the symptoms of its illness to the world.
— Soseki Natsume
The autumn leaves, arranged in two or three scarlet terraces among the pine-trees, have fallen like ancient dreams.
— Soseki Natsume
It's so unrewarding, being a woman.
— Soseki Natsume
How deep, how recondite this seeming petty heart,In whose recesses right and wrong lie dimmed by distance. — Soseki Natsume
His grin seemed to say, "It is, for some strange reason, considered proper to congratulate people on such occasions as this.
— Soseki Natsume
We who are born into this age of freedom and independence and the self must undergo this loneliness. It is the price we pay for these times of ours.
— Soseki Natsume
And men who accept the burdens of regret, whether in respect of watercolors or of anything else, are not the stuff that men of the world are made of.
— Soseki Natsume
I am a cat. As yet I have no name
— Soseki Natsume
I thought of the new stone, of my new wife, and of the newly buried white bones beneath us, and I felt that fate had made sport of us all.
— Soseki Natsume
To be able to muster so many complaints about one little thing - yes, you'll get ahead, that's for sure.
— Soseki Natsume
But to my questions he gave replies so vague that one could not tell whether they came from the mountains or the sea.
— Soseki Natsume
You have a fine scholar's way with words, I must say. You're good at empty reasoning.
— Soseki Natsume
No matter how full one's head might be with the image of greatness, one was useless, I found out, unless one was a worthy man first.
— Soseki Natsume
Secretiveness is a most mysterious matter. However well one guards a secret, sooner or later it's bound to come out.
— Soseki Natsume
Anyone without spiritual aspirations is a fool
— Soseki Natsume
Into the field ofYellow flowers
The red setting sun! — Soseki Natsume
The trouble with women is that they talk too much. It would be good if human beings would keep as silent as this cat.
— Soseki Natsume
From then on, my thesis hung over me like a curse, and with bloodshot eyes, I worked like a madman.
— Soseki Natsume
My hand may slip from lack of practice, but I do not believe my clumsy writing derives from an agitated mind.
— Soseki Natsume
You'd better watch out - life can be dangerous.
— Soseki Natsume
But sick or well, humans are fragile creatures, you know. There's no anticipating how or when they might die, or for what reason
— Soseki Natsume
Age should never meddle with such a matter. Mind your own business.
— Soseki Natsume
Our hearts parted a long time ago, and I was wrong to think they could be brought together again.
— Soseki Natsume
The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod.
— Soseki Natsume
You must not speak ill of other persons. After all, everyone dies when their allotted span is over.
— Soseki Natsume
Under the sun the couple presented smiles to the world. Under the moon, they were lost in thought: and so they had quietly passed the years.
— Soseki Natsume
Men works by preference, not by logic.
— Soseki Natsume
Some say that life has no form, that it is extremely diffuse. I think I can agree with them ... A life without conclusions is painful.
— Soseki Natsume
Until then I had floated at random, like a rootless aquatic plant, relying entirely on the opinions of others.
— Soseki Natsume
But when luck is running against one, nothing goes well.
— Soseki Natsume