"A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet……" — Yasunari Kawabata
"A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance."
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26 Quotes by Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata has 26 quotes on this site.
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A child walked by, rolling a metal hoop that made a sound of autumn.
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The labor into which a heart has poured its whole love--where will it have its say, to excite and inspire,…
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And I can't complain. After all, only woemn are able really to love
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Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar – the roaring at the center, like a distant…
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The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke.
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THE TRAIN came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.
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The winter moon becomes a companion, the heart of the priest, sunk in meditation upon religion and philosophy, there in…
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The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no…
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Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.
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The woman was silent, her eyes on the floor. Shimamura had come to a point where he knew he was…
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The road was frozen. The village lay quiet under the cold sky. Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono…
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Because you cannot see him, God is everywhere.
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More Comforting Quotes
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief;…
— Aristotle
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It's just very homey in Ireland. It's very comforting and comfortable. There's lots of fireplaces with fires. It's just really…
— Amy Adams
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Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear…
— Cecil Beaton
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I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super…
— Kristen Bell
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
— Felix Adler
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The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
— Aesop
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I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.
— Anthony Bourdain
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I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a…
— Carrie Brownstein
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We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that…
— Mitch Albom
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When I'm singing 'Deanna,' for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined,…
— Nick Cave
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
— Noam Chomsky
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A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.
— Princess Diana
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