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Yasunari Kawabata Quote: “I could not bear the silences when the drum stopped. I sank down into the depths of the sound of the rain.”

51. “I could not bear the silences when the drum stopped. I sank down into the depths of the sound of the rain.”

— Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata Quote: “The woman was silent, her eyes on the floor. Shimamura had come to a point where he knew he was only parading his masculine shamelessness, and yet it seemed likely enough that the woman was familiar with the failing and need not be shocked by it. He looked at her. Perhaps it was the rich lashes of the downcast eyes that made her face seem warm and sensuous. She shook her head very slightly, and again a faint blush spread over her face.”

52. “The woman was silent, her eyes on the floor. Shimamura had come to a point where he knew he was only parading his masculine shamelessness, and yet it seemed likely enough that the woman was familiar with the failing and need not be shocked by it. He looked at her. Perhaps it was the rich lashes of the downcast eyes that made her face seem warm and sensuous. She shook her head very slightly, and again a faint blush spread over her face.”

— Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata Quote: “The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void.”

53. “The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void.”

— Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata Quote: “Anyway, it’s hardly a problem worth worrying about.”

54. “Anyway, it’s hardly a problem worth worrying about.”

— Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata Quote: “For such a tiny death, the empty eight-mat room seemed enormous.”

55. “For such a tiny death, the empty eight-mat room seemed enormous.”

— Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata Quote: “Any kind of inhumanity, given practice, becomes human. All the varieties of transgression are buried in the darkness of the world.”

56. “Any kind of inhumanity, given practice, becomes human. All the varieties of transgression are buried in the darkness of the world.”

— Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata Quote: “Father’s life was only a very small part of the life of a tea bowl.”

57. “Father’s life was only a very small part of the life of a tea bowl.”

— Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata Quote: “La conciencia de su propio cuerpo era inseparable del recuerdo de aquel abrazo.”

58. “La conciencia de su propio cuerpo era inseparable del recuerdo de aquel abrazo.”

— Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata Quote: “He had thought on the train of sending his head to a laundry, it was true, but he had been drawn not so much to the idea of the laundered head as to that of the sleeping body. A very pleasant sleep, with head detached.”

59. “He had thought on the train of sending his head to a laundry, it was true, but he had been drawn not so much to the idea of the laundered head as to that of the sleeping body. A very pleasant sleep, with head detached.”

— Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata Quote: “I like the idea of saying thank you on behalf of the weather.”

60. “I like the idea of saying thank you on behalf of the weather.”

— Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata Quote: “Stop. I don’t like it. I don’t like having people die.”

61. “Stop. I don’t like it. I don’t like having people die.”

— Yasunari Kawabata

62. “Your ears are lovely, he said, but there’s a kind of eerie beauty to your profile.”

— Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata Quote: “But this love would leave behind it nothing so definite as a piece of Chijimi. Though cloth to be worn is among the most short-lived of craftworks, a good piece of Chijimi, if it has been taken care of, can be worn quite unfaded a half-century and more after weaving. As Shimamura thought absently how human intimacies have not even so long a life, the image of Komako as the mother of another man’s children suddenly floated into his mind. He looked around, startled. Possibly he was tired.”

63. “But this love would leave behind it nothing so definite as a piece of Chijimi. Though cloth to be worn is among the most short-lived of craftworks, a good piece of Chijimi, if it has been taken care of, can be worn quite unfaded a half-century and more after weaving. As Shimamura thought absently how human intimacies have not even so long a life, the image of Komako as the mother of another man’s children suddenly floated into his mind. He looked around, startled. Possibly he was tired.”

— Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata Quote: “It was, with no attempt at covering itself, the naked heart of a woman calling out to her man.”

64. “It was, with no attempt at covering itself, the naked heart of a woman calling out to her man.”

— Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata Quote: “Haiku are tiny seventeen-syllable poems that seek to convey a sudden awareness of beauty by a mating of opposite or incongruous terms.”

65. “Haiku are tiny seventeen-syllable poems that seek to convey a sudden awareness of beauty by a mating of opposite or incongruous terms.”

— Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata Quote: “I gave myself up to my tears. It was as though my head had turned to clear water, it was falling pleasantly away drop by drop; soon nothing would remain.”

66. “I gave myself up to my tears. It was as though my head had turned to clear water, it was falling pleasantly away drop by drop; soon nothing would remain.”

— Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata Quote: “As it became clear to Shimamura that he had from the start wanted only this woman, and that he had taken his usual roundabout way of saying so, he began to see himself as rather repulsive and the woman as all the more beautiful.”

67. “As it became clear to Shimamura that he had from the start wanted only this woman, and that he had taken his usual roundabout way of saying so, he began to see himself as rather repulsive and the woman as all the more beautiful.”

— Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata Quote: “But love flowed into the apology, to coddle and mollify the guilt.”

68. “But love flowed into the apology, to coddle and mollify the guilt.”

— Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata Quote: “Two middle-aged American couples came back from the dining car and, as soon as they could see Mt. Fuji, past Numazu, stood at the windows eagerly taking photographs. By the time Fuji was completely visible, down to the fields at its base, they seemed tired of photographing and had turned their backs to it. The.”

69. “Two middle-aged American couples came back from the dining car and, as soon as they could see Mt. Fuji, past Numazu, stood at the windows eagerly taking photographs. By the time Fuji was completely visible, down to the fields at its base, they seemed tired of photographing and had turned their backs to it. The.”

— Yasunari Kawabata

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