"Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way."

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Source : Yasunari Kawabata (1996). “Beauty and Sadness”, Vintage Books

Yasunari Kawabata

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“Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.”
“I could do Daniel Day-Lewis's job as well as him.”
“But I'll never be one of those women who feel that they always have to wear earrings and aren't properly dressed without them.”
“In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the courthouse there. One day, an old detective sergeant came and whispered to me in the press pit. He pointed out a young offender, a teenager who was up for stealing a car or something relatively minor, and said, 'See this kid? He'll kill.'”
“I realized how little I knew about my own country. I had grown up in the suburbs and, after college, I moved out of the country, so I didn't really know the place well. When I started following soldiers and their families back home, it provoked a lot of the questions about who we are as a nation, questions I realized couldn't be explored through the more limited framework of looking at the military at war and at home.”
“The act is judged of by the event.”
“I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest budget deficit in America, by percentage, larger than California, larger than New York, larger than Illinois. And we're going to balance that without raising taxes on the people of the state of New Jersey.”
“I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise.”

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