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Beauty and Sadness
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"Beauty and Sadness" Quotes

A love affair between an aging writer and a young artist brings up past regrets and present desires.

Quotes

The only thing a man can do for his lover is to make her his lover. If he does not do that, he does nothing.

Yasunari Kawabata

love

The beauty of things must be that they end.

Yasunari Kawabata

beautytransience

You cannot tell a woman by the way she looks, or by the way she acts, or by her possessions. You can only know a woman by the way she loves.

Yasunari Kawabata

loveunderstanding

We cannot live in the past. We cannot even understand the present. The only thing we know for certain is that the future will be different.

Yasunari Kawabata

changeuncertainty

The beauty that is there is enough.

Yasunari Kawabata

beautycontentment

The only place we can meet is where we are not. And the only time we can meet is always.

Yasunari Kawabata

connectiontimelessness

Sometimes when you love someone, you want to be close to them in every way. But even so, it is not enough.

Yasunari Kawabata

lovelonging

The moon is a wonderful thing. It is a mark of the passage of time, a sign of the changing seasons.

Yasunari Kawabata

timenature

In love, the one who runs away is the winner.

Yasunari Kawabata

lovefreedom

The world is full of lonely people, all isolated in different ways, all in need of love.

Yasunari Kawabata

lonelinesslove