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21 " En el mundo había gente tan parecida entre sí que se los podría tomar por padres e hijos. Pero difícilmente existieran muchos en el mundo. Tal vez hubiera un solo hombre que pudiera corresponderse con una muchacha y una sola joven que combinara con un hombre. Solo uno para algún otro; y tal vez en todo el mundo una sola pareja posible. Viven como extraños, sin suponer ningún tipo de lazo entre ellos y hasta ignorantes de la existencia del otro.Por casualidad suben a un mismo tren, se reúnen por primera vez y probablemente nunca vuelvan a encontrarse. Treinta minutos en el curso de toda una vida. Se separan sin decirse una palabra. Habiendo estado sentados uno al lado del otro, sin mirarse, sin darse cuenta del parecido, se alejan siendo parte de un milagro del que no tomaron conciencia.Y el único admirado por la rareza de todo eso es un extraño que se pregunta si, al ser un accidental testigo, no estará participando de un milagro. "
― Yasunari Kawabata , The Sound of the Mountain
22 " Secondo mio marito non esiste femmina più fortunata della donna. Me lo ripete spesso. Dice che soltanto la femmina umana possiede un aspetto e una voce più armoniosi del maschio. Nel mondo animale sono i maschi ad esercitare il loro fascino: si pensi alle danze nuziali dei ragni e dei tacchini, al canto dei grilli e dei canarini, alla vistosa bellezza dei pavoni, al profumo del gatto muschiato: la donna è l'unica femmina più attraente del maschio, e oltretutto assomma tutti i modelli di seduzione degli animali. Il maschio biologicamente è sfavorito, È in virtù della prole che la femmina dell'animale può considerarsi superiore al maschio. La natura protegge le madri. "
― Yasunari Kawabata , Immagini di cristallo
23 " A secret, if it’s kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance. "
― Yasunari Kawabata , The Lake
24 " One can’t stop and suddenly speak to a complete stranger, can one?......When it happens I could die of sadness. I feel somehow empty and drained.... "
― Yasunari Kawabata
25 " Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way. "
26 " As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar. "
― Yasunari Kawabata , Snow Country
27 " Time passed. But time flows in many streams. Like a river, an inner stream of time will flow rapidly at some places and sluggishly at others, or perhaps even stand hopelessly stagnant. Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way. "
― Yasunari Kawabata , Beauty and Sadness
28 " I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love. "
29 " Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it. "
― Yasunari Kawabata , Thousand Cranes
30 " Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger. "
31 " Because you cannot see him, God is everywhere. "
32 " 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 "
33 " In the depths of the mirror the evening landscape moved by, the mirror and the reflected figures like motion pictures superimposed one on the other. The figures and the background were unrelated, and yet the figures, transparent and intangible, and the background, dim in the gathering darkness, melted into a sort of symbolic world not of this world. Particularly when a light out in the mountains shone in the centre of the girl's face, Shimamura felt his chest rise at the inexpressible beauty of it. "
34 " After all, only women are able really to love. "
35 " They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again. "
36 " Perhaps they don't realize where they were, so they went on living. "
― Yasunari Kawabata , The Old Capital
37 " Long accustomed to a life of self-indulgent solitude, he began to yearn for the beauty of giving himself to others. The nobility of the word 'sacrifice' became clear to him. He took satisfaction in the feeling of his own littleness as a single seed whose purpose was to carry forward from the past into the future the life of the species called humanity. He even sympathized with the thought that the human species, together with the various kinds of minerals and plants, was no more than a small pillar that helped support a single vast organism adrift in the cosmos-- and with the thought that it was no more precious than the other animals and plants. "
― Yasunari Kawabata , Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
38 " After he became the Master, the world believed that he could not lose, and he had to believe it himself. Therein was the tragedy. "
― Yasunari Kawabata , The Master of Go
39 " You've always been fond of understanding people too well.""They should arrange not to be understood quite so easily. "
40 " The baby understands that its mother loves it. [...] Words have their origin in baby talk, so words have their origin in love. "
― Yasunari Kawabata , First Snow on Fuji