"Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness……" — Yasunari Kawabata

"Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty."

— Yasunari Kawabata

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26 Quotes by Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A child walked by, rolling a metal hoop that made a sound of autumn.
The labor into which a heart has poured its whole love--where will it have its say, to excite and inspire,…
And I can't complain. After all, only woemn are able really to love
Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar – the roaring at the center, like a distant…
The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke.
THE TRAIN came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.
The winter moon becomes a companion, the heart of the priest, sunk in meditation upon religion and philosophy, there in…
A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you…
The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no…
The woman was silent, her eyes on the floor. Shimamura had come to a point where he knew he was…
The road was frozen. The village lay quiet under the cold sky. Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono…
Because you cannot see him, God is everywhere.

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More Beauty Quotes

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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