Kafu Nagai quotes
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“Knowing this to be a worthless life to live, why do I keep living on? Because this life contains something called beauty7.”
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“Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society.”
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“Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art.”
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“I believe that man was created to enjoy himself, indeed, that he can claim it as his legitimate right. In fact, as long as he lives, man cannot help enjoying himself, even if he tries not... . Today the average person, when he hears the word pleasure, immediately thinks of something immoral. But nothing could be more wrong.”
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Source : "The Man Who Revitalized 'Doctor Who' And 'Sherlock'". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. May 3, 2012.
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Source : "Toy boys r us" by Alun Palmer, www.mirror.co.uk. March 26, 2010.
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“The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.”
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