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Rumaan Alam • Leave the World Behind
Wabi-sabi is a Japanese concept that shows us the beauty of the fleeting, changeable, and imperfect nature of the world around us. Instead of searching for beauty in perfection, we should look for it in things that are flawed, incomplete.
Francesc Miralles • Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
Genia était d'une beauté dont on disait autrefois qu'elle cause des ravages, une expression qui est passée de mode aujourd'hui, sans doute en raison de l'inflation dans les ravages que le monde a connus depuis.
Romain Gary • Les cerfs-volants (French Edition)
mono no aware. This Japanese term, which literally means ‘pathos of things’, describes the deep emotion that is evoked when we are touched by nature, art or the lives of others with an awareness of their transience. It also refers to the essence of things and our ability to feel that essence.
Marie Kondo • Spark Joy: An Illustrated Guide to the Japanese Art of Tidying
What I like is the potency of the impotent thing, the renewed and adorable life I find in the dead and despised object, something in nothing.