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Author - Kōbō Abe
Quotes by : Kōbō Abe
identity
It’s a real handicap to have a face with shifty eyes.
society
One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society.
life and death
Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?
society
If I were just in trousers, somehow I could go out into the world. It would make no difference whether....
challenge
Defeat begins with the fear that one had lost.
guilt
When he saw the vista of the street reflected in the mirror in which he was looking, he was terror stricken.....
consumerism
These days only a guerrilla or a box man would want to cover up his identity to the extent of refusing....
life
Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening.
life
The future is forever a projection of the present.
loneliness
Loneliness—since I was trying to escape it—was hell; and yet for the hermit who seeks it, it is apparently....
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