"And isn't it better really to leave things only hinted at?"

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Source : Junichiro Tanizaki (2011). “Some Prefer Nettles”, p.119, Tuttle Publishing

Junichiro Tanizaki

“Reservations and cloth napkins are really minor pinnacles in the high sierra of the New York lunch. The zenith, the Mount Whitney of lunches, the noon meal at which all local lines of force converge [is] the Bar Room of the Four Seasons.”
“What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.”
“Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.”
“We don't have time to wait for President Bush to change his mind. How many breakthroughs have been missed as a result of this policy?”
“A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love.”
“It's important to understand that an atheist is someone who believes the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything. Some fundamental atheists will deny this by trying to redefine 'nothing' as being 'something,' because such a thought makes them look like a fool, which is precisely what the Bible says that they are”
“Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.”

Source : Georg Simmel (2008). “Englischsprachige Veröffentlichungen: 1893 - 1910”
“I can be very stubborn. I'm very opinionated and if people cross me at work - if people who don't know about the job try telling me what to do - I become very stubborn and really rather unpleasant.”

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