"The barrenness of sand, as it is usually pictured, was not caused by simple dryness, but apparently was due to the ce…"

"He wanted to believe that his own lack of movement had stopped all movement in the world, the way a hibernating frog …"

"Rarely will you meet anyone so jealous as a teacher. Year after year students tumble along like the waters of a river…"

"More than iron doors, more than walls, it is the tiny peephole that really makes the prisoner feel locked in."

"It goes on, terrifyingly repetitive. One could not do without repetition in life, like the beating of the heart, but …"

"Suddenly a sorrow the color of dawn welled up in him. They might as well lick each other's wounds. But they would lic…"

"Only a shipwrecked person who has just escaped drowning could understand the psychology of someone who breaks out in …"

"All these hundreds of years, from the days of the oldest poetry collections, there have been poems about cherry bloss…"

"Every worm to his taste; Some prefer to eat nettles."

"You are being very demanding indeed. Where, I wonder, will we find the woman to satisfy you? You really should have s…"