Yasunari Kawabata Quotes

As Death Approaches, Memory Erodes. Recent Memories Are The First To Succumb. Death Works Its Way Backward Until It Reaches Memory's Earliest Beginnings. Then Memory Flares Up For An Instant, Just Like A Flame About To Go Out. That Is The 'prayer In The Mother Tongue.'"

-from "A Prayer In The Mother Tongue

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