"Collected Sayings of Natsume Sōseki"

Source: The Complete Works of Sōseki (Iwanami Shoten)　

Translation by ChatGPT 

From ”I Am a Cat” 

"I hear that Japan has been at war with Russia for some time now. Being a cat, I am, of course, partial to Japan. Indeed, I feel such patriotic fervour that I’d gladly organise a brigade of mixed-breed cats to scratch up those Russian soldiers if it were within my power."

From “The Three-Cornered World (Kusamakura)”

"Climbing the mountain path, I mused thus: 'Reason sharpens into contention. Sentiment, when pursued, carries one adrift. To hold fast to one’s stubbornness is to find life stifling. In one way or another, the human world is a hard place to live. When this difficulty deepens, we are tempted to move somewhere simpler. Yet, when we come to realise that every place is fraught with its own hardships, that is when poetry is born, and art is created.'"

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