"The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms."

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The ancients waited for cherry blossoms, grieved when they were gone, and lamented their passing in countless poems. How very ordinary the poems had seemed to Sachiko when she read them as a girl, but now she knew, as well as one could know, that grieving over fallen cherry blossoms was more than a fad or convention.

— Junichiro Tanizaki