Yasunari Kawabata

Japan
11 Jun 1899 // 16 Apr 1972
Writer

It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for us.

The Sound of the Mountain

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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays