From then on, my thesis hung over me like a curse, and with bloodshot eyes, I worked like a madman.
Natsume SōsekiTags: japan japanese studying japanese-literature
Admittedly, there's a certain coarseness about [businessmen]; for there's no point in even trying to be [one] unless your love for money is so absolute that you're ready to accompany it on the walk to a double suicide. For money, believe you me, is a hard mistress, and none of her lovers are let off lightly. As a matter of fact, I've just been visiting a businessman and, according to him, the only way to succeed is to practice the "triangled" technique: try to escape your obligations, annihilate your kindly feelings, and geld yourself of the sense of shame.
Natsume SōsekiCuando aceptas una invitación, lo que haces en realidad es decirle a la otra persona que le tienes respeto y la aprecias... Quien acepta la invitación puede ser un don nadie, pero eso da igual. Basta con que sea un ser humano libre e independiente. El hecho de que ese hombre independiente te encuentre digno de respeto y aprecio es más valioso que un millón de yenes.
Natsume SōsekiTags: inspirational-attitude
The memory of having sat at someone's feet will later make you want to trample him underfoot.
Natsume SōsekiThe autumn leaves, arranged in two or three scarlet terraces among the pine-trees, have fallen like ancient dreams.
Natsume SōsekiTags: i-am-a-cat
Had I the time to keep a diary, I’d use that time to better effect; sleeping on the veranda.
Natsume SōsekiApproach everything rationally, and you become harsh. Pole along in the stream of emotions, and you will be swept away by the current. Give free rein to your desires, and you become uncomfortably confined. It is not a very agreeable place to live, this world of ours.
Natsume SōsekiEven the works of Shakespeare might be more thoroughly appreciated if they were re-examined from unorthodox positions. Someone, once in a while, should take a good long look at Hamlet through his legs.
Natsume SōsekiI am a lonely man," he said again that evening. "And is it not possible that you are also a lonely person? But I am an older man, and I can live with my loneliness, quietly. You are young, and it must be difficult to accept your loneliness. You must sometimes want to fight it."
"But I am not at all lonely."
"Youth is the loneliest time of all. Otherwise, why should you come so often to my house?"
Sensei continued: "But surely, when you are with me, you cannot rid yourself of your loneliness. I have not it in me to help you forget it. You will have to look elsewhere for the consolation you seek. And soon, you will find that you no longer want to visit me."
As he said this, Sensei smiled sadly.
Tags: loneliness aging life-lesson
Thus, as I review the list of my friends and acquaintances, most of them emerge as stained with maniac stigmata of one sort or another. I begin to feel considerably reassured. The truth may simply be that human society is no more than a massing of lunatics.
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