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Yasunari Kawabata Quotes

Yasunari Kawabata quotes

Japanese Novelist, Writer June 14, 1899 – April 16, 1972

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Yasunari Kawabata quote: "Because you cannot see him, God is everywhere."
Because you cannot see him, God is everywhere. Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata quote: "I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The..."
I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die. Yasunari Kawabata
The woman was silent, her eyes on the floor. Shimamura had come to a point where he knew he was only parading his masculine shamelessness, and yet it seemed likely enough that the woman was familiar with the failing and need not be shocked by it. He looked at her. Perhaps it was the rich lashes of the downcast eyes that made her face seem warm and sensuous. She shook her head very slightly, and again a faint blush spread over her face. Yasunari Kawabata
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. Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata quote: "Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar?..."
Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar? the roaring at the center, like a distant clap of thunder. Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata quote: "The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if..."
The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke. Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata quote: "Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?"
Does pain go away and leave no trace, then? Yasunari Kawabata
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. Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata quote: "Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be..."
Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger. Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata quote: "Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a..."
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
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
...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
Yasunari Kawabata quote: "Was this the bright vastness the poet Bash saw when he wrote..."
Was this the bright vastness the poet Bash saw when he wrote of the Milky Way arched over a stormy sea? Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata quote: "They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to..."
They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again. Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata quote: "A child walked by, rolling a metal hoop that made a sound of..."
A child walked by, rolling a metal hoop that made a sound of autumn. Yasunari Kawabata

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