Tengo ganas de escribir y aún más de sondear mi corazón sobre toda clase de cosas.

When  you  are  sleeping ask god to  sit  on  your  breathing because you  are not aware about  tomorrow.

Martin couldn't imagine a world where there was no time to read.

I can hardly believe that the face is so important to a man's existence. A man's worth should be gauged by the content of his work; possibly the convolutions of the surface of the brain have something to do with it, but his face certainly does not. If the loss of a face can cause conspicuous change in the scale of evaluation, it may well be owing to a fundamental emptiness of content.

When will you ever accept the true ugliness of health?

When I look at small things, I think I shall go on living: drops of rain, leather gloves shrunk by being wet...When I look at something too big, I want to die: the Diet Building, or a map of the world...

Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening.

The torment of imprisonment lies in not being able to escape from oneself at any time.

What in heaven's name was the real essence of this beauty? Was it the precision of nature with its physical laws, or was it nature's mercilessness, ceaselessly resisting man's understanding?

Kōbō Abe

Quotes by Kōbō Abe

Written By Kōbō Abe

Written By Kōbō Abe

Written By Kōbō Abe

Written By Kōbō Abe

Written By Kōbō Abe

Written By Kōbō Abe

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