Soseki Natsume quotes
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“Some say that life has no form, that it is extremely diffuse. I think I can agree with them. ... A life without conclusions is painful.”
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“Into the field of Yellow flowers The red setting sun!”
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“The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod.”
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“On a charcoal kiln a vine keeps climbing, while being burned to death.”
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“London is a city that offers all kinds of temptations, and whenever I go for a walk I discover things that I would like to bring back as souvenirs. But my resources are very limited. I cannot buy anything, and I make a point of taking my walks a good distance from these riches.”
-- Soseki NatsumeSource : Soseki Natsume (2011). “Spring Miscellany: And London Essays”, p.114, Tuttle Publishing
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“Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves.”
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“I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than do those words which express thoughts rationally conceived. It is blood that moves the body. Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.”
-- Soseki NatsumeSource : Natsume Soseki (2012). “Kokoro”, p.110, Courier Corporation
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“An artist is a person who lives in the triangle which remains after the angle which we may call common sense has been removed from this four-cornered world.”
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“From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, "mankind abhors equality."”
-- Soseki NatsumeSource : Natsume Soseki (2011). “I Am a Cat”, p.253, Tuttle Publishing
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