Quotes About K?b? Abe

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.

It is manifestly pregnant and has a bulging white belly heavy with its load of kittens.

There are apparently two hypotheses about jealousy: that it is a product of civilization and that it is a basic instinct of animals.

If it were a question of excuses and consolation, I would have preferred to melt away like smoke.

isn't the mask something required mainly by the victim and the disguise, on the contrary, by the assailant?

The mask, that should be the victor, lay stupidly on the table, like an obscene picture that has drained all one's desire;

Whatever the result, it would surely be much better than this extraordinary three-sided relationship—this self-intoxication with jealousy that continued to grow like a cancer.

The result was that, far from heeding my throbbing shame, by cleverly sidestepping the real problem I inevitably involved myself deeper and deeper.