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“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
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“He had barely read two pages when he caught himself with a sour smile. So – the lies that Strindberg wrote to his lover, the Countess, were hardly different from his own.”
― The Life of a Stupid Man
― The Life of a Stupid Man
“が、尾生の魂は、寂しい天心の月の光に、思い憧れたせいかも知れない。ひそかに死骸を抜け出すと、ほのかに明るんだ空の向うへ、まるで水の匀や藻の匀が音もなく川から立ち昇るように、うらうらと高く昇ってしまった。。。
それから幾千年かを隔てた後、この魂は無数の流転を閲して、また生を人間に託さなければならなくなった。それがこう云う私に宿っている魂なのである。だから私は現代に生れはしたが、何一つ意味のある仕事が出来ない。昼も夜も漫然と夢みがちな生活を送りながら、ただ、何か来るべき不可思議なものばかりを待っている。ちょうどあの尾生が薄暮の橋の下で、永久に来ない恋人をいつまでも待ち暮したように。”
― 尾生の信 [Bisei no shin]
それから幾千年かを隔てた後、この魂は無数の流転を閲して、また生を人間に託さなければならなくなった。それがこう云う私に宿っている魂なのである。だから私は現代に生れはしたが、何一つ意味のある仕事が出来ない。昼も夜も漫然と夢みがちな生活を送りながら、ただ、何か来るべき不可思議なものばかりを待っている。ちょうどあの尾生が薄暮の橋の下で、永久に来ない恋人をいつまでも待ち暮したように。”
― 尾生の信 [Bisei no shin]
“True, the Van Gogh was just a book of reproductions, but even in the photographs of those paintings, he sensed the vivid presence of nature.”
― The Life of a Stupid Man
― The Life of a Stupid Man
“the fact of not being understood by others had been my sole source of pride since my early youth, and I had not the slightest impulse to express myself in such a way that I might be understood. When I did try to clarify my thoughts and actions, I did so with no consideration whatsoever. I do not know whether or not this was because I wanted to understand myself. Such a motive is in accord with a person's real character and comes automatically to form a bridge between himself and others”
― The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
― The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
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