“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…”Kóbó Abe book The Box ManSource: The Box Man
“The barrenness of sand, as it is usually pictured, was not caused by simple dryness, but apparently was due to the ceaseless movement that made it inhospitable to all living things. What a difference compared with the dreary way human beings clung together year in year out.”Kóbó Abe book The Woman in the DunesPart 1, Ch. 2 The Woman in the Dunes (1962)