"The woman was silent, her eyes on the……" — Yasunari Kawabata
"The woman was silent, her eyes on the floor. Shimamura had come to a point where he knew he was only parading his masculine shamelessness, and yet it seemed likely enough that the woman was familiar with the failing and need not be shocked by it. He looked at her. Perhaps it was the rich lashes of the downcast eyes that made her face seem warm and sensuous. She shook her head very slightly, and again a faint blush spread over her face."
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Yasunari Kawabata
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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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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 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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Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by…
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Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours…
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Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
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A letter does not blush.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an…
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Thou ever young, fresh, lov'd, and delicate wooer, whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow
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It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in…
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The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that…
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See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the…
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It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
— George Herbert
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There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush…
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