"Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger."

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Source : Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “The Sound of the Mountain”, p.111, Vintage

Yasunari Kawabata

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“I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichÃ©s, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it fall. We can only hover around the inexpressible with our words anyway, and there is comfort in saying what we have heard before.”
“The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of differential equations which dominates mathematical physics.”
“No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side.”
“The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization.”
“If you think about the impact of climate change, it should be how a doctor would deal with the problem. A scientific hypothesis is tested to absolute destruction, but medicine can't wait. If a doctor sees a child with a fever, he can't wait for endless tests. He has to act on what is there. The risk of delay is so enormous that we can't wait until we are absolutely sure the patient is dying.”
“Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.”
“The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.”
“Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled.”

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