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Junichiro Tanizaki - From the Aging category:
The older we get the more we seem to think that everything was better in the past. (Junichiro Tanizaki)
Junichiro Tanizaki - From the Beauty category:
Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty. (Junichiro Tanizaki)
Junichiro Tanizaki - From the Children category:
Children retain a great deal, and when they grow up they start going over things and rejudging them from a grownup's point of view. This must have been this way, and that was that way, they say. That's why you have to be careful with children - some day they grow up. (Junichiro Tanizaki)
Junichiro Tanizaki - From the Doubt category:
Once you start doubting, it's hard to know what to believe. (Junichiro Tanizaki)
Junichiro Tanizaki - From the Individuality category:
The heart of mine is only one; it cannot be known by anybody but myself. (Junichiro Tanizaki)
Junichiro Tanizaki - From the Light category:
If light is scarce then light is scarce; we will immerse ourselves in the darkness and there discover its own particular beauty. (Junichiro Tanizaki)
Junichiro Tanizaki - From the Loneliness category:
If I know from the start that I'm going to be alone, I'm not lonely. It doesn't bother me. (Junichiro Tanizaki)
Junichiro Tanizaki - From the Pattern category:
We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates. (Junichiro Tanizaki)
Junichiro Tanizaki - From the Pets category:
When he heard people with no knowledge of a cat's character saying that cats were not as loving as dogs, that they were cold and selfish, he always thought to himself how impossible it was to understand the charm and lovableness of a cat if one had not, like him, spent many years living alone with one. (Junichiro Tanizaki)
Junichiro Tanizaki - From the Taste category:
There are those who hold that to quibble over matters of taste in the basic necessities of life is an extravagance. (Junichiro Tanizaki)
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