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

The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.

If I can make even one person happy in my lifetime, that is my own happiness.

そこでは全てが秩序と美、贅沢、静けさ、悦楽に他ならない。

-- 夏尔·波德莱尔

The mastery of writing is ultimately an aesthetics, and it comes down to whether one can create one's own style.

-- 谷崎润一郎

We Orientals create beauty by generating shadows in places that are nothing special.

-- 谷崎润一郎

Since the human heart is invisible to the eye...

-- 紫式部

There is no such thing as a perfect sentence. Just as there is no such thing as perfect despair.

-- 三岛由纪夫

止まれ、お前は美しい！

-- 约翰·沃尔夫冈·冯·歌德