"The woman was silent, her eyes on the floor. Shimamura had come to a point where he knew he was only parading his masculine shamelessness, and yet it seemed likely enough that the woman was familiar with the failing and need not be shocked by it. He looked at her. Perhaps it was the rich lashes of the downcast eyes that made her face seem warm and sensuous. She shook her head very slightly, and again a faint blush spread over her face."

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Source : Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Snow Country”, p.21, Vintage

Yasunari Kawabata

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“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.”

Source : Arnold Bennett (2013). “How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.30, Lulu Press, Inc
“Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.”
“She was his north star, the fixed point round which his world turned. For as long as his heart beat, or hers, he believed they would always share a destiny.”
“The healthy man is the thin man. But you donâ€™t need to go hungry for it: Remove the flours, starches and sugars; thatâ€™s all.”
“Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.”
“Because this exact leaf had to grow in that exact way, in that exact place, so that precise wind could tear it from that precise branch and make it fly into this exact face at that exact moment. And, if just one of those tiny little things had never had happened, I'd never have met ya. Which makes this leaf the most important leaf in human history”
“Art must not be intelligent; art is a jouisance, an enjoyment”
“Sherrill On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.”

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