The less we love a woman, the more easily we please her.

Habit is given to us from above: it is a substitute for happiness.

My strength uproots mountains, my spirit overshadows the world.

-- Xiang Yu

Teach a departing man the name of one flower. Flowers bloom faithfully every year.

-- Yasunari Kawabata

Love is a kind of creative act.

-- Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

This world, I think of it as my own, like the full moon lacking nothing at all.

-- Murasaki Shikibu

I suffer from a certain vague unease.

-- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.

-- Hermann Hesse