My Favorite Quotes/Lines in The Lake by Yasunari Kawabata

• "Anyway, it’s just a morbid fantasy, a cover for girlish weaknesses, to believe in the kind of intimate friendship where you share absolutely everything. Perfect awareness might exist in heaven or hell, but not in the human world. If you have no secrets from Miss Onda it means that you don’t exist, that you’re not living your own life." -The Lake, by Yasunari Kawabata

• " Friendship is impossible without secrets. Not only friendship, but no other human emotion can survive without them." -The Lake, by Yasunari Kawabata

• " A lie, once told, never vanishes, but chases after us. A crime, once committed, pursues a person until he repeats it. Bad habits are like that." -The Lake, by Yasunari Kawabata

• "When one spends money, one remembers spending it even after it’s gone. But, when one loses the money one has saved, the very thought of saving is a bitter memory." -The Lake, by Yasunari Kawabata

• "One can fuss about the beauty of a mistress, but it never mattered in a wife." -The Lake, by Yasunari Kawabata

• " A secret, if it’s kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance." -The Lake, by Yasunari Kawabata

• "  Lovers have no other friends. No one at all! Even Miss Onda is an enemy now –the eyes and ears of the outside world." -The Lake, by Yasunari Kawabata

• " Why do you need a friend’s sympathy?" -The Lake, by Yasunari Kawabata

• " If I can’t exist without seeing you, I’ll look for you whatever happens." -The Lake, by Yasunari Kawabata

• " I’ve been hurt and still feel the pain. But, if I still need you when I’m better, then I’ll come." -The Lake, by Yasunari Kawabata