“They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again.”
Source: The Sound of the Mountain
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Japanese author, Nobel Prize winner 1899–1972Related quotes

“The man talked, but somehow nothing he said seemed to make any sense.”
Part XI (p. 647)
Earth (1990)
Maeve Gilmore (his widow), Introduction to A Book of Nonsense, p. 10

The Finest Story in the World http://www.telelib.com/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/ManyInventions/fineststory.html (1893).
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The Shepherd of King Admetus http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1170/, st. 5