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More Quotes by Yasunari Kawabata
Because you cannot see him, God is everywhere.
The labor into which a heart has poured its whole love--where will it have its say, to excite and inspire, and when?
A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.
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
The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke.
The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night.
A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance.
People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development.
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.
Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.
