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People really didn't change very much, he thought; they only decayed. — Soseki Natsume

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

Reflection may be essential to a scholar, but it's taboo in social intercourse. — 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

The plain fact is that humans, one and all, are merely thieves at heart. — 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 a shame that an education just gives people the means to chop logic — 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

Of all the tribulations in this world, boredom is the one most hard to bear. — Soseki Natsume

He framed a question inwardly to his vanity: 'Will this be tougher than I thought? — 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 of
Yellow 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

To be as comfortably off as you are is, after all, the best way to be. — 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

I am not as hard as I seem. For the right person, I too could shed a few tears. — Soseki Natsume

Until then I had floated at random, like a rootless aquatic plant, relying entirely on the opinions of others. — Soseki Natsume

On a charcoal kiln a vine keeps climbing, while being burned to death. — Soseki Natsume

But when luck is running against one, nothing goes well. — Soseki Natsume