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“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
“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
“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.”
― The Woman in the Dunes
― The Woman in the Dunes
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