They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again.

From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.

It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for us

Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.

They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again.

The labor into which a heart has poured its whole love--where will it have its say, to excite and inspire, and when?

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.