Book: Tokyo bride

We focused on talking about the weather. And it was right, because climate is an ideal theme for those who have nothing to talk about with each other. Besides, in Japan it is the main and compulsory subject of conversation. To meet someone and not to discuss the weather borders on antisocial behaviour.

Wandering the streets, I thought: here it, a unique dignity that distinguishes the Japanese, here it manifests itself in the most amazing ways. Nothing, absolutely nothing, suggests that it is a city-Martyr. In any other country from such an unimaginable nightmare for sure would have sucked all dividends possible. Capital, acquired on the tragedy, the wealth of many States were absent in Hiroshima.

Why is all your compatriots [the Japanese] so together they huddle together abroad?
- They like to look at people different from themselves, and at the same time, feel among friends.

Impossible to get bored looking at going past people, especially in Japan.

Soup of the orchids were equally beautiful to look at as fresh to the taste. Having admired them plenty to do with him was nothing more.

The Japanese to a greater extent than other peoples, tend to do something only because it is customary.

... To gain time - also a great success in this life.

Bastions of conservatism at everyone, it is unfathomable level of understanding.

It is believed that to flee shamefully. Sorry, it's so nice. The flight gives the most amazing sense of freedom that can only be. Running away, feeling freer than when running nothing.

Is it possible to fall in love with the person to whom ispytyvaesh sympathy? Excluded. We love those who hate us, who for us is deadly.

To be Zarathustra - this means that instead of foot you have a winged deity, devouring a mountain and turning it into the sky, and instead of knees catapults, where the arrow is all your body. This means that in the stomach you beat the drums of war, but in your heart you hear the victory March, and you dwell is a frightening joy that make her an ordinary person is unable; to be Zarathustra means to own all the forces of this world just because you called them and is able to accommodate, it means to cease to touch the ground by engaging in direct dialogue with the sun.

It was noon - in nature and in my soul.

Love - the feeling is so French that many see it as almost a national invention. Without falling into such extremes, however, I am aware that in French there really is a spirit of love.