Quotes by Sseki Natsume, Sanshir

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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 a...”
— Sseki Natsume, Sanshir
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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 societyeverything was other-centered, which means t...”
— Sseki Natsume, Sanshir
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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 ...”
— Sseki Natsume, Sanshir
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“Hirota feels strongly drawn toward nature and the natural, is hyper-sensitive to the artificialparticularly that most cramped and constraining man-made creation, societyand does his best to avoid it.”
— Sseki Natsume, Sanshir
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“Desire is a frightening thing.”
— Sseki Natsume, Sanshir
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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...”
— Sseki Natsume, Sanshir
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