Soseki Natsume Quotes

• Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves.

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  Loneliness, Self, Independence

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• I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than do those words which express thoughts rationally conceived. It is blood that moves the body. Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.

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  Believe, Moving, Passion

  Natsume Soseki (2012). “Kokoro”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• Some say that life has no form, that it is extremely diffuse. I think I can agree with them. ... A life without conclusions is painful.

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  Life, Thinking, Inspire

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• Into the field of
  Yellow flowers
  The red setting sun!

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  Inspirational, Life, Flower

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• An artist is a person who lives in the triangle which remains after the angle which we may call common sense has been removed from this four-cornered world.

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  Artist, Common Sense, World

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• I am a cat. As yet I have no name

  Soseki Natsume

  Cat, Names

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• From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, "mankind abhors equality."

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  Race, Vacuums, May

  Natsume Soseki (2011). “I Am a Cat”, p.253, Tuttle Publishing

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• The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod.

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  Artist, Slave, Demigods

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• On a charcoal kiln a vine keeps climbing, while being burned to death.

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  Perseverance, Climbing, Vines

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• London is a city that offers all kinds of temptations, and whenever I go for a walk I discover things that I would like to bring back as souvenirs. But my resources are very limited. I cannot buy anything, and I make a point of taking my walks a good distance from these riches.

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  Distance, Cities, Temptation

  Soseki Natsume (2011). “Spring Miscellany: And London Essays”, p.114, Tuttle Publishing

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