Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

-- Zeno of Citium

Thank God, I have done my duty.

-- Britain's greatest naval hero

If I can make even one person happy in my lifetime, that is my own happiness.

-- Yasunari Kawabata

美しさと哀しさとは何故これほどに通ひ合うのだろうか。

-- Yasunari Kawabata

The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.

-- Yasunari Kawabata

Trample. It is to be trampled on by you that I am here. I know the pain in your foot best of all.

-- Shusaku Endo