We Orientals create beauty by generating shadows in places that are nothing special.
美は物の影にある。

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Junichiro Tanizaki
Tanizaki Junichiro (1886-1965) was a Japanese novelist celebrated for his exploration of sexuality, beauty, and the tension between Western modernization and Japanese tradition. His masterwork 'The Makioka Sisters' chronicles an Osaka merchant family's decline, while 'In Praise of Shadows' remains the essential essay on Japanese aesthetics.
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Revere Heaven, Love People.
-- The charismatic giant who led Japan's Meiji Restoration through force of personality and moral authority
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.
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Trample. It is to be trampled on by you that I am here. I know the pain in your foot best of all.
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The mastery of writing is ultimately an aesthetics, and it comes down to whether one can create one's own style.
-- Junichiro Tanizaki
無限と永遠の差は、一方が量であり、一方が質であるという点にある。
-- Yukio Mishima