The history of humanity is also a history of excavating hidden facts.

Facts show a different face depending on how they are written.

Wisdom that comes only after hearing another's opinion is not true wisdom.

-- Toyotomi Hideyoshi

History is a chain of wills attempting to transmit something.

-- Yasushi Inoue

Writing is the work above all other work.

-- Ichiyō Higuchi

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

-- Thomas Mann

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

-- Ernest Hemingway

Beauty is always discovered in the actualities of living.

-- Jun'ichirō Tanizaki