Japan quotations

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◆ It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except to himself alone, hidden only God knows where.

- James Clavell99

◆ The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

- Haruki Murakami98

◆ People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development.

- Yasunari Kawabata98

◆ It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling.

- Osamu Dazai98

◆ After listening to a lot of these stories, I began to think that American loneliness is a completely different creature from anything we experience in this country, and it made me glad I was born Japanese. The type of loneliness where you need to keep struggling to accept a situation is fundamentally different from the sort you know you'll get through if you just hang in there.

- Ryū Murakami98

◆ I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.

- Haruki Murakami98

◆ Ne radi se o tome da ne vjerujem u savremenu knji?evnost, ali ne ?elim da tra?im dragocjeno vrijeme na ?itanje knjiga ?iju vrijednost nije potvrdilo vrijeme. ?ivot je kratak.

- Haruki Murakami98

◆ Als ich sehe, wie Harus Haar verspielt im Wind tanzt und v?llig zerzaust wird, und das, obwohl das Grau da drau?en doch bleischwer in der Luft lastet, erkenne ich auf einmal, wie weit, weit weg die Vergangenheit ist. Weiter als der Tod, ja weiter sogar als die unüberbrückbare Distanz, die zwischen zwei Menschen besteht.

- Banana Yoshimoto98

◆ Le persone che si lasciano incantare, che seguono in massa qualcuno che non produce niente, non capisce niente, ma parla bene in maniera persuasiva. A queste persone non passa neanche per l'anticamera del cervello che potrebbero sbagliarsi. Non riescono neanche a immaginare che possono ferire qualcuno irreparabilmente, senza motivo. Non si assumono la minima responsabilità degli effetti della loro condotta. Sono loro, quelli di cui ho paura. Sono loro quelli che vedo in sogno. Nel sogno tutto tace, e mi appaiono delle persone senza volto. Il silenzio si infiltra ovunque come acqua fredda, e in quel silenzio, tutto si scioglie.

- Haruki Murakami98

◆ A historic transition is occurring, barely noticed. Slowly, quietly, imperceptibly, religion is shriveling in America, as it has done in Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan and other advanced societies. Supernatural faith increasingly belongs to the Third World. The First World is entering the long-predicted Secular Age, when science and knowledge dominate. The change promises to be another shift of civilization, like past departures of the era of kings, the time of slavery, the Agricultural Age, the epoch of colonialism, and the like. Such cultural transformations are partly invisible to contemporary people, but become obvious in retrospect.

- James A. Haught98

◆ Das Fegen der Wandelg?nge ist eine l?stige Angelegenheit an diesem Nachmittag: Kaum sind die Bl?tter und Piniennadeln zusammengekehrt, bl?st der Wind den Haufen davon. Wolken ziehen über dem Kahlen Gipfel auf und verschütten eisigen Nieselregen.

- David Mitchell98

◆ A veces, cuando me levanto y me miro en el espejo, me parece estar viendo a otra persona. Si no ando con cuidado, esa persona me va a ir dejando atrás.

- Haruki Murakami98

◆ Cultures that do not wish to exist cannot be dissuaded from destroying themselves.

- David P. Goldman98

◆ If you don't have a whole lot of unsatisfied people, the economy stops dead, doesn't it?

- Andy Couturier98

◆ In a time like this, let us trust in God even more. To trust when life is easy is no trust.

- Joy Kogawa98