Quotes by Sōseki Natsume, Sanshirō

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“Desire is a frightening thing.”

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“Tokyo is bigger than Kumamoto. And Japan is bigger than Tokyo. And even bigger than Japan... Even bigger than Japan is the inside of your head. Don't ever surrender yourself ― not to Japan, not to ...”
— Sōseki Natsume, Sanshirō
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“When I was a student, there wasn't a single thing we did that was unrelated to others. It was all for the Emperor, or parents, or the country, or society—everything was other-centered, which means ...”
— Sōseki Natsume, Sanshirō
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“The call for political freedom took place long ago. The call for freedom of speech is also a thing of the past. Freedom is not a word to be used exclusively for phenomena such as this which are so ...”
— Sōseki Natsume, Sanshirō
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“Hirota feels strongly drawn toward nature and the natural, is hyper-sensitive to the artificial—particularly that most cramped and constraining man-made creation, society—and does his best to avoid...”
— Sōseki Natsume, Sanshirō
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“Desire is a frightening thing.”
— Sōseki Natsume, Sanshirō
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“It seems to me that you might create any sort of character in a novel and there would be at least one person in the world just like him. We humans are simply incapable of imagining non-human action...”
— Sōseki Natsume, Sanshirō
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