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Because you cannot see him God is everywhere.

Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had b...

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Thousand Cranes

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business.The day you die.

Beauty and Sadness

Yet the misty spring rain softened the outline of the mountain across the river and made it even mor...

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People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection an...

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No, it didn't hurt. He didn't want to lose any black hair, and he was careful to pull out the white ...

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Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in word...

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Yasunari Kawabata

Writer

Born: 1899-06-14

Died: 1972-04-16

Yasunari Kawabata [川端 康成 Kawabata Yasunari] (14 June 1899 – 16 April 1972) was a Japanese short story writer and novelist known for his spare, lyrical, and subtly-shaded prose. In 1968 he became the first Japanese writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.More