のんきと見える人々も、心の底を叩いてみると、どこか悲しい音がする。
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Natsume Sōseki
Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) is Japan's most celebrated modern novelist, known for masterworks such as 'Kokoro,' 'Botchan,' and 'I Am a Cat.' A scholar of English literature who studied in London, he fused Western literary techniques with Japanese sensibility to create psychologically penetrating novels that explore the isolation of the modern individual.
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Natsume Sōseki's Other Quotes
You cannot receive benefit from others without exposing your weaknesses. You cannot give benefit to others without exposing your weaknesses.
If you work by reason, you grow rough-edged. If you follow your feelings, you get swept away. If you insist on having your way, you feel boxed in. In any case, the human world is hard to live in.
Follow heaven and forsake the self.