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。
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Yasunari Kawabata
Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972) was the first Japanese author to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (1968), honored for his narrative mastery expressing 'the essence of the Japanese mind.' Works such as 'Snow Country,' 'The Old Capital,' and 'Thousand Cranes' capture transient beauty with a prose style of extraordinary delicacy and precision.
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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.
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We Orientals create beauty by generating shadows in places that are nothing special.
-- Junichiro Tanizaki
The mastery of writing is ultimately an aesthetics, and it comes down to whether one can create one's own style.
-- Junichiro Tanizaki
There is no such thing as a perfect sentence. Just as there is no such thing as perfect despair.
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Since the human heart is invisible to the eye...
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