Japanese Quotes

I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.

Haruki Murakami

Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with privilege and position.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Chained inside the carriage is a sinful woman. When we set the carriage afire, her flesh will be roasted, her bones will be charred: she will die an agonizing death. Never again will you have such a perfect model for the screen. Do not fail to watch as her snow-white flesh erupts in flames. See and remember her long black hair dancing in a whirl of sparks!

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Might it have been nothing but life itself? Life; this limitless complex sea, filled with assorted flotsam, brimming with capricious, violent, and yet eternally transparent blues and greens.

If automating everything makes people lazier and lazier, and laziness leads to stupidity, which it does for most people, judging by the current content circulating the social networks everywhere, except North Korea, where they don’t have any internet to speak of - at some point the Japanese robots, for which a market niche is currently being developed, with no concerns on how they should be designed to act in society or outside it - will have no choice, but to take everything over, to preserve us from ourselves…

What I always say is that Japanese are like willow. We can be bent easily, but once you try to break us, it would not be so easy.

You know Americans...Self-improvement. No matter who or what we are, we're always working on ways to become somebody else.

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

Haruki Murakami

No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can.

Haruki Murakami

Calligraphy is an art form that uses ink and a brush to express the very souls of words on paper.

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