508 Quotes About Japan

If it has not been invented in Japan, then it has not been invented anywhere else.

-L’umanità è concorde nella decisione di sopravvivere.- Non servono né liberazioni di colombe né bande militari. Basterebbe una frase simile per dare inizio a una fresca e tranquilla giornata, e l’universo intero saprebbe che da quell’istante la terra è divenuta una stella meravigliosa.

The bones came jumbled together from the kitchen... there was no way of telling my parents from my Brothers and Sisters. I put them all in the same urn. Sometimes, late at night, I hold them in my hands and cry.

A most extraordinary device for catching dragon-flies is used by the children of the province of Kii. They get a long hair, - a woman's hair, - and attach a very small pebble to each end of it, so as to form a miniature "bolas"; and this they sling high into the air. A dragon-fly pounces upon the passing object; but the moment that he seizes it, the hair twists round his body, and the weight of the pebbles brings him to the ground.

Japanese culture is thus a cannibalistic form - assimilating, absorbing, aping, devouring. Afro-Brazilian culture is also a rather good example of cannibalism in this sense: it too devours white modern culture, and it too is seductive in character. Cannibalism must indeed always be merely an extreme form of the relationship to the other, and this includes cannibalism in the relationship of love. Cannibalism is a radical form of hospitality.

私の夢は甘くて永遠であり、私が今まで持っていた最高の夢はあなたを永遠に愛することでした

Time should not embarrass itself by moving forward, bringing only pale imitations of a perfect night.

You're always drinking apple juice. Do you have a Vitamin C deficiency?""The only deficiency I have is the sixteen years I spent on this planet not knowing how good apple juice could be.""Isn't it the same everywhere?""That's what I would have thought, till I tried it here. The apples here are just next-level delicious and perfect. The juice is naturally sweet, refreshing, and satisfying.

The Japanese were again committed to a useless fight to the death.