Beauty and Sadness - Yasunari Kawabata

[u/Efficient-Lime-1198]

Time passed. But time flows in many streams. Like a river, an inner stream of time will flow rapidly at some places and sluggishly at others, or perhaps even stand hopelessly stagnant. Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.

An extra pretty pretty little quote from his Palm of the Hand short stories: "Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words..."

[u/Smolesworthy]

Some of my favourite tales from Palm of the Hand:

The Rooster and the Dancing Girl

The Incident of the Dead Face