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When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and…

— Barbara Bloom

“A kind man once told me that in Japan, broken pottery is pieced back together using gold as the glue, highlighting the cracks, making…

— Barbara Pierce Bush

“In Japanese culture there is an art of fixing broken pottery with gold or silver lacquer. The lacquer highlights the pottery’s flaw as a…

— Kim Dinan

“I’m like one of those Japanese bowls That were made long ago I have some cracks in me They have been filled with gold…

— Peter Mayer

“In Japanese culture it is said that if a vase is accidently broken and then glued back together, it becomes even more beautiful... regardless…

— José N. Harris

“some things are more beautiful when they've been broken.”

— Krystal Sutherland

“We are not broken things, neither of us. We are cracked pottery mended with lacquer and flakes of gold, whole as we are, complete…

— Mackenzi Lee

“We are all broken in some way. But it’s all the shattered pieces that give us depth. Like stained glass, it’s how the pieces…

— Adriana Law

...Poetic injustice...having made over Japan in our own image. The Japanese, ...are now, next to us, the greatest consumers of meat in the world.

— Mother Jones

If you had a large vase with a big crack down the middle of it, a Japanese art museum would put the vase on…

— Arielle Ford

“The leaders of Nippon were stupid. They took all of the gold out of Tokyo and buried it in holes in the ground in…

— Neal Stephenson

“What of it? Tokyo people are complicated. They live in such noise and confusion that their feelings are broken to little bits.” “Everything is…

— Yasunari Kawabata