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“ Loneliness—since I was trying to escape it—was hell; and yet for the hermit who seeks it, it is apparently happiness. ”

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Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?

~ Kōbō Abe

Defeat begins with the fear that one had lost.

~ Kōbō Abe

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.

~ Kōbō Abe

You can only do what you can no matter how you try.

~ Kōbō Abe