"The true joy of a moonlit night is……" — Yasunari Kawabata
"The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night."
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26 Quotes by Yasunari Kawabata
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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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A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you…
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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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More Joy Quotes
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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What we play is life.
— Louis Armstrong
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Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.
— Neil Armstrong
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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their…
— Margaret Atwood
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Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're…
— Margaret Atwood
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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
— Saint Augustine
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To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
— Marcus Aurelius
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When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in…
— Teresa of Avila
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