Quotes from K?b? 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.

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.

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.

What we call beauty is perhaps the strength of our feeling of resistance to destructibility. Difficulty of reproduction is the yardstick of the degree of beauty.

Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.

If covering our bodies with clothes represents a cultural step forward, there is no guarantee that in the future masks will not be taken equally for granted.

It was as if, without realizing it, I had been completely disarmed by her legs.

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.

According to Fleetfin's research, if you sun-dry the sexual organs of a male and female squid and bring them into contact at the rate of three hundred fifty feet per fifteen seconds or less (the average running speed of a third-year junior high school student), you'll create an explosion surpassing dynamite.

The change in the sand corresponded to a change in himself. Perhaps, along with the water in the sand, he had found a new self.

Only man has turned away from the law of survival of the fittest, taken up the weak and ailing, and guaranteed their right to survival. So heroes perish, but the weak live on. One measure of a civilisation, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society. There's even a political scientist (anonymous) who claims that our modern age is an age of the patient, by the patient, for the patient.

Patience itself was not necessarily defeat. Rather defeat really began when patience was thought to be defeat

Lost in the crowd, it's all right to pretend for a moment to be no one.

What we mean when we say terrible conditions is conditions which we are aware of as being terrible.

I do not quite know how to put it, but I wonder if a mask, being universal, enhances our relations with others more than does the naked face.

Suddenly you began to sob. It was an unnerving sound, like air escaping from a faucet when the water stops.

The same sand currents had swallowed up and destroyed flourishing cities and great empires. They called it the sabulation of the Roman Empire, if he remembered rightly.

The torment of imprisonment lies in not being able to escape from oneself at any time. I too was wretchedly floundering around, tightly closed into the bag of myself.

Rarely will you meet anyone so jealous a a teacher. Year after year students tumble along like the waters of a river. They flow away, and only the teacher is left behind, like some deeply buried rock at the bottom of the current. Although he may tell others of his hopes, he doesn't dream of them himself. He thinks of himself as worthless and either falls into masochistic loneliness, or, failing that, ultimately becomes suspicious and pious, forever denouncing the eccentricities of others.

He was angry at the things that bound the woman … and at the woman who let herself be bound.

I want to spy on all sorts of places, and the box is a portable hole that occurred to me under the circumstances, it being impossible to punch holes throughout the world.

You can't force yourself into something you can't understand, you know.

The goal does not lie in the results of research, the very process of research is itself the goal.

Más que de la mujer, el hombre tiende a enamorarse de los fragmentos y detalles de las cosas.