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His expression hardened. It was unpleasant to have feelings that he had been at pains to check aroused to no purpose
— Kobo Abe
The world itself, like the mask, began to seem difficult to believe in, and I was stricken with an unutterable sense of loneliness.
— Kobo Abe
Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate.
— Kobo Abe
The most frightening thing in the world is to discover the abnormal in that which is closest to us.
— Kobo Abe
Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star.
— Kobo Abe
Being free always involves being lonely.
— Kobo Abe
It would seem that marsupials are poor imitations of full-fledged mammals. Their inadequacy gives them a certain appeal; we're touched by it.
— Kobo Abe
Penumbra [...] produces another e-reader - it's a Nook. Then another one, a Sony. Another one, marked KOBO. Really? Who has a Kobo?
— Robin Sloan
He wanted to believe that his own lack of movement had stopped all movement in the world, the way a hibernating frog abolishes winter.
— Kobo Abe
-Well, what happens with the River of Hades in the end?
-Not a thing. It's an infernal punishment precisely because nothing happens. — Kobo Abe
-Not a thing. It's an infernal punishment precisely because nothing happens. — Kobo Abe
Loneliness - since I was trying to escape it - was hell; and yet for the hermit who seeks it, it is apparently happiness.
— Kobo Abe
Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening.
— Kobo Abe
Time cannot be spurred on like a horse.
— Kobo Abe
Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.
— Douglas Adams
It's a dangerous dog that doesn't bark.
— Kobo Abe
There are apparently two hypotheses about jealousy: that it is a product of civilization and that it is a basic instinct of animals.
— Kobo Abe
Life wouldn't be easier or not easier. Aren't both generalizations logically impossible? Since there's no correlation, there can be no comparison.
— Kobo Abe
Could having a face be such an important requirement? Was being seen the cost of the right to see?
— Kobo Abe
What we mean when we say "terrible conditions" is conditions which we are aware of as being terrible.
— Kobo Abe
Things have value Because somebody buys them, Because somebody pays money; If you can find a buyer, Even a lie is worth a thousand yen.
— Kobo Abe
Perhaps it would be better to say that, rather than losing their passion, they had frozen it by over-idealizing it.
— Kobo Abe
Basically, there is nothing new in the behavior of monsters, for the monster himself is nothing more than an invention of his victims.
— Kobo Abe
Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.
— Kobo Abe
A keener interest in trinkets of self-adornment than in people is a symptom of alienation.
— Kobo Abe
So nothing will ever be written down again. Perhaps the act of writing is necessary only when nothing happens.
— Kobo Abe
Jonah is only available right now exclusively on Amazon Kindle. Jonah will be available on Kobo and Nook on July 10, 2014
— Bob Bannon
Rather than run aimlessly away, it would be best, I suppose, to face the situation squarely and get used to it once and for all.
— Kobo Abe