Fumiko Enchi quotes

“Even the sadistic misogyny of Buddha and Christ was nothing but an attempt to gain the better of a vastly superior opponent.”
-- Fumiko Enchi

Source : Fumiko Enchi (2015). “Masks”, p.124, Vintage

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“A woman's love is quick to turn into a passion for revenge--an obsession that becomes an endless river of blood, flowing on from generation to generation.”
-- Fumiko Enchi

Source : Fumiko Enchi (1983). “Masks”, Vintage

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“Happiness--a small-scale, endearing, harmonious happiness--surely dwelt here beneath the low-powered lamps in the tiny rooms of these houses. A small-scale happiness and a modest harmony: let a man cry out, let him rage, let him howl with grief with all the power of which he was capable, what more than these could he ever hope to gain in this life?”
-- Fumiko Enchi

Source : Fumiko Enchi (1971). “The waiting years”

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“I feel old when I see mousse in my opponent's hair.”

“Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.”

“But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.”

“The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more unknown, more and more beautiful. The closer I come, the grander it is, the more remote it is.”

Source : Alberto Giacometti, Castello di Rivoli (Museum : Rivoli, Italy) (1988). “Alberto Giacometti: Castello di Rivoli, 6 dicembre 1988-26 febbraio 1989”

“Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.”

“Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?”

“The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.”

Source : Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

“I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.”

“Our identification with Christ should be that whatever He is we also want to become.”

“Christ dazzles me and stirs within me such feelings of amazement that I can never get over Him.”