“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 Dunes

Part 1, Ch. 8
Source: The Woman in the Dunes (1962)

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Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor 1924–1993

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