242 Quotes About Japanese
- Author Inazo Nitobe
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Read Hearn, the most eloquent and truthful interpreter of the Japanese mind, and you see the working of that mind to be an example of the working of Bushido.
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- Author Koushun Takami
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Fucking bastard, I'll stab you in the chest with this pencil.
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- Author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
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The heart of mine is only one, it cannot be known by anybody but myself.
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- Author Ryū Murakami
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When you're a kid, getting lost isn't just an event or a situation, it's like a career move. You get this thrill of anxiety and fear and a feeling that you've done something that can never be undone.
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- Author Ryū Murakami
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He invited me to his apartment in the wee hours one morning and pulled out a set of children's building blocks. It seems he used to ride around and around on the Yamanote Line with them, building castles on the floor of the train.
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- Author Ryū Murakami
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Lady #1, Maki, had never once given any thought to what was really right for her in her life, simply believing that if she surrounded herself with super-exclusive things, she'd become a super-exclusive person.
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- Author William T. Vollmann
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Great art projects a sense of inexhaustibility. In literature, particularly in poetry, this may be accomplished through ambiguity: Beneath each and every meaning that I can descry lie others, so that rereading holds out the prospect of new subtleties, inversions, secret codes and ineffabilities
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- Author Sakanoue no Korenori
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Ikivihreittenhumisevien mäntyjenvarjossa katsonepäuskoisena kukkienlyhyttä kukoistusta.
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- Author Izumi Shikibu
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Oi elämäni, toivoton sammumaton.Miten kadehdintuulen tuivertamiasoihtuja yössä.
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