You know Americans...Self-improvement. No matter who or what we are, we're always working on ways to become somebody else.
Alan BrownMots clés society japan americans japanese improvement audrey-hepburn alan-brown
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.
Hiroko SakaiMots clés life strength japanese flexibility willow
I don't remember who spoke first, but I do recall the first words between us: "How often we meet among old books!"
This was the start of our friendship.
Mots clés friendship japan japanese japanese-literature
In old Chinese novels, especially in the Kimpeibai, usually after every ten or twenty pages of innocent description, the author invariably throws in an indecent scene as if he were quite punctually fulfilling a promise.
Ōgai MoriI am a lonely man,' Sensei said. 'And so I am glad that you come to see me. But I am also a melancholy man, and so I asked you why you should wish to visit me so often.
Natsume SōsekiMots clés loneliness japan japanese japanese-literature
From then on, my thesis hung over me like a curse, and with bloodshot eyes, I worked like a madman.
Natsume SōsekiMots clés japan japanese studying japanese-literature
An obstacle which would frighten discreet men is nothing to determined women. They dare what men avoid, and sometimes they achieve an unusual success.
Ōgai MoriMots clés women japan japanese japanese-literature
He felt so lost, he said later, that the familiar studio felt like a haunted valley deep in the mountains, with the smell of rotting leaves, the spray of a waterfall, the sour fumes of fruit stashed away by a monkey; even the dim glow of the master's oil lamp on its tripod looked to him like misty moonlight in the hills.
Ryūnosuke AkutagawaMots clés japan japanese japanese-literature
People used to say that on moonless nights Her Ladyship's broad-skirted scarlet trousers would glide eerily along the outdoor corridor, never touching the floor.
Ryūnosuke AkutagawaMots clés japan japanese japanese-literature
He was said to have survived starvation by eating human flesh, after which he had the strength to tear out the antlers of a living stag with his bare hands.
Ryūnosuke AkutagawaMots clés japan japanese cannibalism japanese-literature
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