We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides. (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki)

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

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