Quotes by Lafcadio Hearn

"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."
— Lafcadio Hearn
"We owe more to our illusions than to our knowledge"
— Lafcadio Hearn
"The Shadow-maker shapes forever."
— Lafcadio Hearn
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Koizumi Yakumo (小泉 八雲; born Patrick Lafcadio Hearn; 27 June 1850 – 26 September 1904) was a Greek and Irish writer, translator, and teacher who introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the We...