"I often imagine that the longer he studies……" — Lafcadio Hearn
"I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry."
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Lafcadio Hearn
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46 Quotes by Lafcadio Hearn
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No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it.…
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All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.
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In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the…
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The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you…
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French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is…
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Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
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There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow…
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The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice ... yet the whole of this art, as to its detail,…
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