Ben

“Only man has turned away from the law of survival of the fittest, taken up the weak and ailing, and guaranteed their right to survival. So heroes perish, but the weak live on. One measure of a civilisation, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society. There's even a political scientist (anonymous) who claims that our modern age is an age "of the patient, by the patient, for the patient".”
― Kōbō Abe, Secret Rendezvous

“When will you ever accept the true ugliness of health?”
― Abe Kōbō, Secret Rendezvous

“Nothing is so awkward as a demonstration of humanity by the enemy.”
― Kōbō Abe, Secret Rendezvous

“Easy money weighs light in the hand and doesn't give you the feeling that you've earned it.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich