Rayan Bentaleb

“Suddenly you began to sob. It was an unnerving sound, like air escaping from a faucet when the water stops.”
― Kōbō Abe, The Face of Another

“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

“The most frightening thing in the world is to discover the abnormal in that which is closest to us.”
― Kobo Abe

“You don't need me. What you really need is a mirror. Because any stranger is for you simply a mirror in which to reflect yourself. I don't ever again want to return to such a desert of mirrors.”
― Kōbō Abe, The Face of Another