“French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.”
— Lafcadio Hearn
Author: Lafcadio Hearn
Category: marriage
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“The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.”
— Lafcadio Hearn
Author: Lafcadio Hearn
Category: poetry
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“I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.”
— Lafcadio Hearn
Author: Lafcadio Hearn
Category: poetry
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“There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.”
— Lafcadio Hearn
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Category: fear
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“But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.”
— Lafcadio Hearn
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Category: respect
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“It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.”
— Lafcadio Hearn
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“It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found – indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.”
— Lafcadio Hearn
Author: Lafcadio Hearn
Category: poetry
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“There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry – the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.”
— Lafcadio Hearn
Author: Lafcadio Hearn
Category: poetry
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“But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.”
— Lafcadio Hearn
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Category: happiness
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“Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.”
— Lafcadio Hearn
Author: Lafcadio Hearn
Category: poetry
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“At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.”
— Lafcadio Hearn
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Category: famous
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