Abeer

“Could having a face be such an important requirement? Was being seen the cost of the right to see?”
― Kōbō Abe, The Face of Another

“Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?”
― Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“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...”
― Kobo Abe, The Box Man

“I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey