KOBO ABE


“You don’t need me. What you really need is a mirror. Because any stranger is for you simply a mirror in which to reflect yourself. I don’t ever again want to return to such a desert of mirrors.”
 
“Being free always involves being lonely.”
― Kōbō Abe
 
 
“Everyone has his own philosophy that doesn’t hold good for anybody else.”
― Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
 
 
“Suddenly a sorrow the color of dawn welled up in him. They might as well lick each other’s wounds. But they would lick forever, and the wounds would never heal, and in the end their tongues would be worn away.”
― Kōbō Abe
 
“Only the happy ones return to contentment. Those who were sad return to despair.”
― Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
 
“The only way to go beyond work is through work. It is not that work itself is valuable; we surmount work by work. The real value of work lies in the strength of self-denial.”
― Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
 
 
“Could having a face be such an important requirement? Was being seen the cost of the right to see?”
― Kōbō Abe, The Face of Another
 
“I personally feel that a box, far from being a dead end, is an entrance to another world. I don’t know to where, but an entrance to somewhere, some other world.”
― Kōbō Abe, The Box Man
 
 
“If from the beginning you always believed that a ticket was only one-way, then you wouldn’t have to try so vainly to cling to the sand like an oyster to a rock.”
― Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
 
 
“Without the threat of punishment, there is no joy in flight.”
― Kōbō Abe
 
“The fish you don’t catch is always the biggest.”
― Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
 

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