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Yasunari Kawabata was a renowned Japanese novelist and the first Japanese author to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. His works are known for their lyrical style and subtle exploration of beauty and loneliness. He became an iconic figure in modern Japanese literature and influenced generations of writers. Here are 43 of his quotes:
The Zen disciple sits for long hours silent and motionless, with his eyes closed. Presently he enters a state of impassivity, free from all ideas and all thoughts. He departs from the self and enters the realm of nothingness. This is not the nothingness or the emptiness of the West. It is rather the reverse, a universe of the spirit in which everything communicates freely with everything, transcending bounds, limitless.
Yasunari Kawabata
The disciple must, however, always be lord of his own thoughts, and must attain enlightenment through his own efforts. And the emphasis is less upon reason and argument than upon intuition, immediate feeling. Enlightenment comes not from teaching but through the eye awakened inwardly. Truth is in "the discarding of words", it lies "outside words".
Yasunari Kawabata
When we see the beauty of the snow, when we see the beauty of the full moon, when we see the beauty of the cherries in bloom, when in short we brush against and are awakened by the beauty of the four seasons, it is then that we think most of those close to us, and want them to share the pleasure.
Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata
Occupation: Japanese Writer
Born: June 11, 1899
Died: April 16, 1972
Quotes count: 43
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