Yasunari Kawabata Short Quotes

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

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Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger.

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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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Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?' 'You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.

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They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again.

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The labor into which a heart has poured its whole love—where will it have its say, to excite and inspire, and when?

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Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar – the roaring at the center, like a distant clap of thunder.

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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.

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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

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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.

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The road was frozen. The village lay quiet under the cold sky. Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono and tucked it into her obi. The moon shone like a blade frozen in blue ice.

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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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