Kōbō Abe said this quote

“ And again, the dark street. The dark, dark street. The women out shopping for the evening meal of course, and baby carriage and the silver bicycle were already painted out by the darkness; most of the commuters too were already in place in their filing-drawer houses. A half-forsaken chasm of time .... ”

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Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?

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Defeat begins with the fear that one had lost.

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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.

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

~ Kōbō Abe