literature

Reckless from childhood, I've been losing out my whole life because of it.

The whole time, what the old man had said kept buzzing in my head, like the wing-beat of flies circling a melon.

But the die is already cast.

'I've gotten too old to play with bugs,' the boy said.

'Still quick-tempered as ever, huh,' he said while deflecting Reika's fist.

'Wahahahaha, don't you worry!' I deliberately put on a brave front.

'Actually — who are you?!' Iori was interrogating that girl, ignoring me as I lay rolling on the floor.

Eventually, the ghost disappeared into the thick fog.

My love grows stronger the more it is rejected.

Old age is an island surrounded by death.

The children couldn't see the daisies dancing in the moonlight.

The veil of night is descending.

When evening came, he probably looked up at the starry sky with curiosity — or so I imagine.

"Hamlet" is said to be the most interesting play ever written.

Starting from that, they came to introduce a great number of European poems and literary works.

A protagonist as utterly ordinary as him is rare.

The idea of a person carrying an unchanging character through their whole life is something that only happens in novels.

Hemingway's prose was bad writing.

When it comes to Chinese books that are overrated worldwide, I'd say it's Sun Tzu, wouldn't you?

At home, because of the reddish hair and freckles, Mother contemptuously named the child 'Carrot' and makes everyone call them that too.

Sōseki was a contemporary of Ōgai.

Besides being a famous physicist, he's also a great novelist.

It was night.

Can computers really translate literary works and the like?

Reading the book, it seems the colonists and adventurers set sail toward new wonderful lives, new countries and opportunities.

The cowboys rode into a nameless town.

The water around us was stagnant.

I memorized many of Takuboku's poems.

As civilization advances, poetry almost inevitably declines.

Literature thrives best when it is half commerce and half art.