" Twenty years old, I had embarked on this trip to Izu heavy with resentment that my personality had been permanently warped by my orphan's complex and that I would never be able to overcome a stifling melancholy. So I was inexpressibly grateful to find that I looked like a nice person as the world defines the word."
-from "The Dancing Girl of Izu "
― Yasunari Kawabata , The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories
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