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Yasunari Kawabata quotes: I could not bear the silences when the drum stopped. I sank down into the depths of the sound of the rain. I could not bear the silences when the drum stopped. I sank down into the depths of the sound of the rain.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: After all, only women are able really to love. After all, only women are able really to love.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: Because you cannot see him, God is everywhere. Because you cannot see him, God is everywhere.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: This is no world for gentle people This is no world for gentle people
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: The baby understands that its mother loves it. [ ... ] Words have their origin in baby talk, so words have their origin in love. The baby understands that its mother loves it. [ ... ] Words have their origin in baby talk, so words have their origin in love.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love. I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar. As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: THE TRAIN came out of the long tunnel into the snow country. THE TRAIN came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: The high, thin nose was a little lonely, a little sad, but the bud of her lips opened and closed smoothly, like a beautiful little circle of leeches. The high, thin nose was a little lonely, a little sad, but the bud of her lips opened and closed smoothly, like a beautiful little circle of leeches.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: Father's life was only a very small part of the life of a tea bowl. Father's life was only a very small part of the life of a tea bowl.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: 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. 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.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke. The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation. From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: And I can't complain. After all, only woemn are able really to love And I can't complain. After all, only woemn are able really to love
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: Here in our mountains, the snow falls even on the maple leaves. Here in our mountains, the snow falls even on the maple leaves.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: The rich eyelashes again made him think that her eyes were half open. The rich eyelashes again made him think that her eyes were half open.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger. Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: A child walked by, rolling a metal hoop that made a sound of autumn. A child walked by, rolling a metal hoop that made a sound of autumn.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: One can't stop and suddenly speak to a complete stranger, can one? ... When it happens I could die of sadness. I feel somehow empty and drained ... One can't stop and suddenly speak to a complete stranger, can one? ... When it happens I could die of sadness. I feel somehow empty and drained ...
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: Perhaps they don't realize where they were, so they went on living. Perhaps they don't realize where they were, so they went on living.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: 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 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
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: The labor into which a heart has poured its whole lovewhere will it have its say, to excite and inspire, and when? The labor into which a heart has poured its whole love
where will it have its say, to excite and inspire, and when?
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: Stop. I don't like it. I don't like having people die. Stop. I don't like it. I don't like having people die.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: It's not right to live so long in this world only moving backward."-from "Diary of My Sixteenth Year It's not right to live so long in this world only moving backward."

-from "Diary of My Sixteenth Year
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words ... Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words ...
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: In a gourd that had been handed down for three centuries, a flower that would fade in a morning. In a gourd that had been handed down for three centuries, a flower that would fade in a morning.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: [ ... ] and yet the woman's existence, her straining to live, came touching him like naked skin. [ ... ] and yet the woman's existence, her straining to live, came touching him like naked skin.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: Again she lost herself in the talk, and again her words seemed to be warming her whole body. Again she lost herself in the talk, and again her words seemed to be warming her whole body.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance. A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void. The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty. Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: Oh, to be laughed at when I have the courage to speak my heart. I don't want to live in a world like this."-from "Diary of My Sixteenth Year Oh, to be laughed at when I have the courage to speak my heart. I don't want to live in a world like this."
-from "Diary of My Sixteenth Year
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: When you die, there is nothingonly a life that will be forgotten."-from "Gathering Ashes When you die, there is nothing
only a life that will be forgotten."
-from "Gathering Ashes
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: He heard a sound that only a magnificent old bell could produce, a sound that seemed to roar forth with all the latent power of a distant world. He heard a sound that only a magnificent old bell could produce, a sound that seemed to roar forth with all the latent power of a distant world.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again. They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: After he became the Master, the world believed that he could not lose, and he had to believe it himself. Therein was the tragedy. After he became the Master, the world believed that he could not lose, and he had to believe it himself. Therein was the tragedy.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?''You sometimes even feel sentimental for it. Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?'
'You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: The course of one's life is a difficult thing."-from "Diary of My Sixteenth Year The course of one's life is a difficult thing."

-from "Diary of My Sixteenth Year
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: You've always been fond of understanding people too well.""They should arrange not to be understood quite so easily. You've always been fond of understanding people too well."
"They should arrange not to be understood quite so easily.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: Her awareness of her body was inseparable from her memory of his embrace. Her awareness of her body was inseparable from her memory of his embrace.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business.The day you die. I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business.
The day you die.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: Even when natural weather is good, human weather is bad. Even when natural weather is good, human weather is bad.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: Anyway, it's hardly a problem worth worrying about. Anyway, it's hardly a problem worth worrying about.
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: Thinking to be tactful and adroit, the woman stood Thinking to be tactful and adroit, the woman stood
Yasunari Kawabata quotes: If you wanna be somebody be yourself dont try to be anybody your not If you wanna be somebody be yourself dont try to be anybody your not

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