Ella, mientras dormía, pronunciaba palabras de amor con los dedos de los pies. - Yasunari Kawabata

¡El hombre es la medicina que da vida a la mujer! Todas las mujeres tienen que consumirla.

I could not bear the silences when the drum stopped. I sank down into the depths of the sound of the rain.

He was conscious of an emptiness that made him see Komako’s life as beautiful but wasted, even though he himself was the object of her love; and yet the woman’s existence, her straining to live, came touching him like naked skin. He pitied her, and he pitied himself.