Quotes from yoshikawa eiji

Oh, you crows! Feast away! What a spread! Soup straight from the eye sockets! And thick red sake! But don't have too much Or you'll surely get drunk.

To Kiyomori each stall, each soul here seemed borne under by the crushing weight of the world; everyone here was a pitiful weed, trodden underfoot -- a conglomeration of human lives putting down roots in this slime, living and letting live in the struggle to survive; and he was stirred by the fearful and magnificent courage communicated by the scene.

When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.

The bitter winds in February were sometimes called the First East Winds, but the longing for spring somehow made them seem more piercing.

It does happen, of course, that the priesthood has been on bad terms with womankind for some three thousand years. You see, Buddhism teaches that women are evil. Fiends. Messengers of hell. I've spent years immersed in the scriptures, so it's no accident that you and I fight all the time.

The world is a stone wall ... and they have put the stones so close together that there is not a single crack through which one may enter.

The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object--the joy of living--is not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encountered on the way up.

People tend to be put off by the idea of selling sex, but if you spend a winter's night with one of them and talk with her about her family and so on, you're likely to find she's just like any other woman.

Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.

There's not much benefit in attacking an empty house.

Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit.

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