19 quotes found
“ To be pleasant, gentle, calm and self-possessed: this is the basis of good taste and charm in a woman. No matter how amorous or passionate you may be, as long as you are straightforward and refrai...”
“The bond between husband and wife is a strong one. Suppose the man had hunted her out and brought her back. The memory of her acts would still be there, and inevitably, sooner or later, it would be...”
“No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side a...”
“Last year nothing happenedThe year before nothing happenedAnd the year before that nothinghappened.”
“I have been brought up in a world dominated by honor. I have known neither crime, poverty, nor betrayal, and here I taste hatred for the first time: it is sublime, like a thirst for justice and rev...”
“If love goes too far, it turns into cruelty.”
“Just as there is an archetype of woman as the object of man's eternal love, so there must be an archetype of her as the object of his eternal fear, representing, perhaps, the shadow of his own evil...”
“Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.”
“Otaku () is also a formal way of saying "you". means "house", and with the honorific , it literally means "your honorable house", implying that you are less of a person and more of a place, fixed ...”
“When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me.”
“She trailed behind Baba and Jiji as they left the palace, nightingales singing a sad farewell.”
“This was her heritage. Her people. So why did she feel so small and weak? So far removed from it?”
“A faint tear wet Meiko's eye, so slight a bit of moisture that it passed unseen by Yasuko. Yet all the anguish of which she never spoke was compressed into that single drop”
“Itsumademo ai shiteru, Yuki. I love you forever, my daughter.”
“To be pleasant, gentle, calm and self-possessed: this is the basis of good taste and charm in a woman. No matter how amorous or passionate you may be, as long as you are straightforward and refrain...”
“Otaku (おた) is also a formal way of saying "you". た means "house", and with the honorific お, it literally means "your honorable house", implying that you are less of a person and more of a place...”
