Kokoro Noir

"...this light too would be swallowed up by the silent whirlpool. I could not know that very soon, this light would be snuffed out, and that I would be left in a world of total darkness." (Soseki 92)

"It would seem that the younger generation today knows only how to spend money." (Soseki 98)

"The devil had passed before me, so to speak, casting his shadow over me for a moment." (Soseki 164)

"The development - or the destruction - of man's body and mind depends upon external stimuli." (Soseki 177)

"But my mother, who did not understand me..." (Soseki 91)

"...it is hard to judge men and women..." (Soseki 61)

"Youth is the loneliest of all time..." (Soseki 15)

"It seemed that Sensei's misanthropic views which he had expressed to me applied to the modern world in general..." (Soseki 32)