Maddie

“Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.”
― Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“He was angry at the things that bound the woman … and at the woman who let herself be bound.”
― Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“The barrenness of sand, as it is usually pictured, was not caused by simple dryness, but apparently was due to the ceaseless movement that made it inhospitable to all living things. What a difference compared with the dreary way human beings clung together year in year out.”
― Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“Patience itself was not necessarily defeat. Rather defeat really began when patience was thought to be defeat”
― Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes