If I can make even one person happy in my lifetime, that is my own happiness.
一切の芸術の極意は、末期の眼にある。
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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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