Junichiro Tanizaki Quotes

Western clothes were intended for healthy, robust men: to anyone in a weakened condition they were quite insupportable. Around the waist, over the shoulders, under the arms, around the neck - every pa...

If light is scarce then light is scarce; we will immerse ourselves in the darkness and there discover its own particular beauty.

There are those who hold that to quibble over matters of taste in the basic necessities of life is an extravagance

But when Kaname asked: Would you like to separate, then? Misako answered: Would you? They knew that divorce was the solution, and yet neither had the courage to propose it, each was left face to face...

But does a decent man make promises just to please a woman? Isn't it more honest to refuse to?I don't like that sort of honesty. It's not honesty, it's lack of steadiness.

There are those who say that when civilization progresses a bit further transportation facilities will move into the skies and under the ground, and that our streets will again be quiet, but I know pe...

The quality that we call beauty ... must always grow from the realities of life.

When I saw the illustration a new idea came to me. Might it not be possible to have Satsuko’s face and figure carved on my tombstone in the manner of such a Bodhisattva, to use her as the secret model...

Не знаю, как другие женщины, а моя жена так сотворена, что даже если она занималась этим днем и продолжила ночью, и так день за днем, ей все будет мало. После встречи с любовником проделать то же само...