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Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (/hɜːrn/; Greek: Πατρίκιος Λευκάδιος Χερν; 27 June 1850 – 26 September 1904), known also by the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo (小泉八雲), was a writer, known best for his books about Japan, especially his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. In the United States, Hearn is also known for his writings about the city of New Orleans based on his ten-year stay in that city.

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One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures; that is everlastingly wrong.

Principles, Purpose, Suffering, Thing

The fact, however, to which I want to call attention is that the master of Judo never relies upon his own strength. He scarcely uses his own strength in the greatest emergency. Then what does he use? Simply the strength of his antagonist. The force of the enemy is the only means by which that enemy is overcome.

Enemy, Force, Mean, Overcome, Rely Upon, Use

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

Fiction, Given, Literature, Longer, Passion, Student

The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

Duty, Father, Men, Ties, Woman

French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.

Allow, Consequently, Lovers, Sex, World

Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

Broad, Ethics, Matter, Tolerance

All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.

Ants, Done, Littles, Way, Work

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.

Beautiful, Illusion, Moment, Passion, Romance, Time

There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view.

Book, Emotion, Thought, Two, Views

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

Examination, Great Day, Immense, Knowledge, Things, Useless

Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.

America, Formerly, Men, Nobles, Religious

Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists. . . but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.

Buried, Cities, New Orleans, Ohio, Sackcloth, Taxes

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

Chinese, High, Monument, Religious, Special, Sublime

Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.

America, Europe, Fact, Men, Simple

Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts of exquisite courtesy and kindness.

Affection, Courtesy, Kindness, Tone, Voice

I may venture to say, loosely, that in Judo there is a sort of counter for every twist, wrench, pull, push or bend. Only the Judo expert does not oppose such movements at all. No, he yields to them. But he does much more than yield to them. He aids them with a wicked sleight that causes the assailant to put out his own shoulder, to fracture his own arm, or in a desparate case, even to break his own neck or back.

Causes, Loosely, Neck, Wicked, Yield

The Shadow-maker shapes forever.

Forever, Shadow, Shapes

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

Book, Defects, Index, Lasts, Printed, Want

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

Art, Fall, Literature, Minor, Seldom, True

Woo the muse of the odd.

Muse, Odd, Woo

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