“Patience itself was not necessarily defeat. Rather defeat really began when patience was thought to be defeat”
― The Woman in the Dunes
― The Woman in the Dunes
“He was angry at the things that bound the woman … and at the woman who let herself be bound.”
― The Woman in the Dunes
― The Woman in the Dunes
“Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.”
― The Woman in the Dunes
― The Woman in the Dunes
“The beauty of sand, in other words, belonged to death. it was the beauty of death that ran through the magnificence of its ruins and its great power of destruction”
― The Woman in the Dunes
― The Woman in the Dunes
“And so, one bit one's nails, unable to find contentment in the simple beating of one's heart... one smoked, unable to be satisfied with the rhythm of one's brain...”
― The Woman in the Dunes
― The Woman in the Dunes
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