"A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the centre of his compass at his own home."

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Source : Kobo Abe (2011). “The Woman in the Dunes”, p.94, Vintage

Kobo Abe

#Home Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Glasses Quotes

“Happiness is not a future event.”
“Iâ€™m here now, Iâ€™m inevitably going to die at some point, and as an artist I feel an ardent urge to constantly be creating.”
“The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.”

Source : "Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry" by Charles Peguy, translated by Ann and Julien Green, (p. 51), 1943.
“Healthy people eating healthy food should never need to take an antibiotic.”
“What we know matters but who we are matters more.”
“I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality.”
“Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement.”
“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”

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