Many people ask why a writer commits suicide. But I think that people who ask don't know the vanity and the nothingness of writing. I think it is very usual and natural for a writer to commit suicide, because in order to keep on writing he must be a very strong person.
Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost. - Kobo Abe
Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost.
- Kobo Abe
Without the threat of punishment, there is no joy in flight. - Kobo Abe
Without the threat of punishment, there is no joy in flight.
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 w… - Kobo Abe
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 w…
It's a dangerous dog that doesn't bark. - Kobo Abe
It's a dangerous dog that doesn't bark.
Suicide is an escape from life. What is life? An escape from death. This means that each of us must die twice. There is the death waiting for us ahea… - Kobo Abe
Suicide is an escape from life. What is life? An escape from death. This means that each of us must die twice. There is the death waiting for us ahea…
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
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.
Perhaps the act of writing is necessary when nothing happens. - Kobo Abe
Perhaps the act of writing is necessary when nothing happens.
Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate. - Kobo Abe
Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate.
Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel? - Kobo Abe
Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?
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