“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 most frightening thing in the world is to discover the abnormal in that which is closest to us.”Kóbó Abe
“He wanted to believe that his own lack of movement had stopped all movement in the world, the way a hibernating frog abolishes winter.”Kóbó Abe book The Woman in the DunesPart 1, Ch. 8 Source: The Woman in the Dunes (1962)