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Yasunari Kawabata Quotes

Yasunari Kawabata quotes about words

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

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The baby understands that its mother loves it. [...] Words have their origin in baby talk, so words have their origin in love. Yasunari Kawabata
She was afraid to touch the dictionary Oki was even there. Innumerable words reminded her of him. To link whatever she saw and heard with her love was nothing less than to be alive. Her awareness of her body was inseparable from her memory of his embrace. Yasunari Kawabata
Long accustomed to a life of self-indulgent solitude, he began to yearn for the beauty of giving himself to others. The nobility of the word 'sacrifice' became clear to him. He took satisfaction in the feeling of his own littleness as a single seed whose purpose was to carry forward from the past into the future the life of the species called humanity. He even sympathized with the thought that the human species, together with the various kinds of minerals and plants, was no more than a small... 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
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

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