The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod. Soseki Natsume More Quotes by Soseki Natsume More Quotes From Soseki Natsume Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves. Soseki Natsume independencelonelinessself I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than do those words which express thoughts rationally conceived. It is blood that moves the body. Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things. Soseki Natsume passionbelievemoving Some say that life has no form, that it is extremely diffuse. I think I can agree with them. ... A life without conclusions is painful. Soseki Natsume inspirelifethinking London is a city that offers all kinds of temptations, and whenever I go for a walk I discover things that I would like to bring back as souvenirs. But my resources are very limited. I cannot buy anything, and I make a point of taking my walks a good distance from these riches. Soseki Natsume distancecitiestemptation From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, "mankind abhors equality." Soseki Natsume vacuumsracemay I am a cat. As yet I have no name Soseki Natsume catnames An artist is a person who lives in the triangle which remains after the angle which we may call common sense has been removed from this four-cornered world. Soseki Natsume common-senseartistworld Into the field of Soseki Natsume flowerinspirationallife On a charcoal kiln a vine keeps climbing, while being burned to death. Soseki Natsume vinesperseveranceclimbing
