Kōbō Abe Quotes
Kōbō Abe Quotes
Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?
1346 Nothing is so awkward as a demonstration of humanity by the enemy.
4563 Just as trees bear their fruit before winter, just as bamboo grass produces its seeds just before it withers, sex is simply a struggle with death on the human level.
3099 They say the level of civilization is proportionate to the degree of cleanliness of the skin. Assuming that man has a soul, it must, in all likelihood, be housed in the skin.
4582 One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society.
1427 The future is forever a projection of the present.
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