"You've always been fond of understanding people too well."… - Yasunari Kawabata

"You've always been fond of understanding people too well."
"They should arrange not to be understood quite so easily."

Yasunari Kawabata

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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.

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Native Name: 川端康成

Alternative Names: Kawabata Yasunari • KAWABATA Yasunari

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The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night.

As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar.

Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’
‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.

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