4 Quotes by Kenzaburō Ōe about country


  • Author Kenzaburō Ōe
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    My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.

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  • Author Kenzaburō Ōe
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    Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.

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  • Author Kenzaburō Ōe
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    Of course I would not presume to rank myself with the poetic genius Yeats. I am merely a humble follower living in a country far removed from his.

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