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“Loneliness was an unsatisfied thirst for illusion.”
― Kobo Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?”
― K艒b艒 Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“One could not do without repetition in life, like the beating of the heart, but it was also true that the beating of the heart was not all there was to life.”
― K艒b艒 Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“There wasn't a single item of importance [in the newspaper]. A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of important things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the center of his compass at his own home.”
― Abe K艒b艒, The Woman in the Dunes

“Everyone has his own philosophy that doesn't hold good for anybody else.”
― K艒b艒 Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“Only the happy ones return to contentment. Those who were sad return to despair.”
― K艒b艒 Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“The fish you don't catch is always the biggest.”
― K艒b艒 Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“I rather think the world is like sand. The fundamental nature of sand is very difficult to grasp when you think of it in its stationary state. Sand not only flows, but this very flow is the sand.”
― K艒b艒 Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“He wanted to believe that his own lack of movement had stopped all movement in the world, the way a hibernating frog abolishes winter.”
― K艒b艒 Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“What in heaven's name was the real essence of this beauty? Was it the precision of nature with its physical laws, or was it nature's mercilessness, ceaselessly resisting man's understanding?”
― K艒b艒 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.”
― K艒b艒 Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“If there were no risk of a punishment, a getaway would lose the pleasure.”
― K艒b艒 Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“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.”
― K艒b艒 Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“Certainly sand was not suitable for life. Yet, was a stationary condition absolutely indispensable for existence? Didn't unpleasant competition arise precisely because one tried to cling to a fixed position? If one were to give up a fixed position and abandon oneself to the movement of the sands, competition would soon stop. Actually, in the deserts flowers bloomed and insects and other animals lived their lives. These creatures were able to escape competition through their great ability to adjust--for example, the man's beetle family.

While he mused on the effect of the flowing sands, he was seized from time to time by hallucinations in which he himself began to move with the flow.”
― K艒b艒 Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“Defeat begins with the fear that one had lost.”
― K艒b艒 Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“Animal smell is beyond philosophy.”
― K艒b艒 Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“Only a shipwrecked person who has just escaped drowning could understand the psychology of someone who breaks out in laughter just because he is able to breathe”
― K艒b艒 Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“Sand, which didn't even have a form of it's own. Yet, not a single thing could stand against this shapeless, destructive power. The very fact that it had no form was doubtless the highest manifestation of its strenght, was it not?”
― K艒b艒 Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“Suddenly a sorrow the color of dawn welled up in him. They might as well lick each other鈥檚 wounds. But they would lick forever, and the wounds would never heal, and in the end their tongues would be worn away.”
― K艒b艒 Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“-Well, what happens with the River of Hades in the end?
-Not a thing. It's an infernal punishment precisely because nothing happens.”
― K艒b艒 Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“And so, one bit one's nails, unable to find contentment in the simple beating of one's heart... one smoked, unable to be satisfied with the rhythm of one's brain...”
― K艒b艒 Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“The beauty of sand, in other words, belonged to death. it was the beauty of death that ran through the magnificence of its ruins and its great power of destruction”
― K艒b艒 Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“The barrenness of sand, as it is usually pictured, was not caused by simple dryness, but apparently was due to the ceaseless movement that made it inhospitable to all living things. What a difference compared with the dreary way human beings clung together year in year out.”
― K艒b艒 Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“His expression hardened. It was unpleasant to have feelings that he had been at pains to check aroused to no purpose”
― K艒b艒 Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.”
― K艒b艒 Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“There are all kinds of life, and sometimes the other side of the hill looks greener. What's hardest for me is not knowing what living like this will ever come to.”
― K艒b艒 Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“This crazy, blind beating of wings caused by man-made light... this irrational connection between spiders, moths and light. If a law appeared without reason, like this, what would one believe in?”
― K艒b艒 Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“Once he had seen a reproduction of an engraving called 鈥淗ell of Loneliness鈥� and had thought it curious. In it a man was floating unsteadily in the air, his eyes wide with fright, and the space around him, far from being empty, was so filled with the semi-transparent shadows of dead persons that he could scarcely move. The dead, each with a different expression, were trying to push one another away, talking ceaselessly to the man. What was this 鈥淗ell of Loneliness鈥�? he wondered. Perhaps they had misnamed it, he had thought then, but now he could understand it very well. Loneliness was an unsatisfied thirst for illusion. And so, one bit ones nails, unable to find contentment in the simple beating of ones heart. One smoked, unable to be satisfied with the rhythm of ones brain. One had the shakes, unable to find satisfaction in sex alone.”
― K艒b艒 Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“丕賳诏丕乇 賴乇 夭賳 毓丕丿蹖 噩丿丕賸 賲毓鬲賯丿 丕爻鬲 讴賴 賳賲蹖鈥屫堌з嗀� 賲乇丿 乇丕 亘賴 丕乇夭卮 禺賵丿 賵丕賯賮 讴賳丿貙 賲诏乇 丕蹖賳鈥屭┵� 禺賵丿卮 乇丕 亘賴 丕賵 毓乇囟賴 讴賳丿貙 趩賳丕賳 讴賳丿 讴賴 丕賳诏丕乇 氐丨賳賴鈥屫й� 丕夭 蹖讴 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 毓丕卮賯丕賳賴 丕爻鬲. 丕賲丕 丕蹖賳 鬲賵賴賲 乇賯鬲鈥屫з嗂屫� 賵 賲毓氐賵賲丕賳賴 丿乇 丨賯蹖賯鬲 夭賳 乇丕 賯乇亘丕賳蹖 蹖讴 胤乇賮賴鈥屰� 鬲噩丕賵夭蹖 乇賵丨蹖 賲蹖鈥屭┴必�.”
― K艒b艒 Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“袣芯谐写邪 薪邪 褌械斜褟 褋屑芯褌褉褟褌, 邪 褌褘 写械谢邪械褕褜 褔褌芯-褌芯 谐邪写泻芯械 鈥� 褝褌芯 谐邪写泻芯械 胁 褌芯泄 卸械 褋褌械锌械薪懈 屑邪褉邪械褌 懈 褌械褏, 泻褌芯 褋屑芯褌褉懈褌.”
― K艒b艒 Abe, The Woman in the Dunes