“Only the happy ones return to contentment. Those who were sad return to despair.”
Source: The Woman in the Dunes
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Kóbó Abe 16
Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor 1924–1993Related quotes
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“[Translated]: It is only the dead who do not return.”
II n'ya que les morts qui ne reviennent pas.
Speech, 1794, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
As quoted in The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991 (1994) by Eric J. Hobsbawm
3 (20 October 1917); as published in The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954); also in Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings (1954); variant translations use "cardinal sins" instead of "main human sins" and "laziness" instead of "indolence".
The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Context: There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.
This reading was given to a woman who was crippled with infantile paralysis and couldn't walk.
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