Lucas Azevedo

“Could having a face be such an important requirement? Was being seen the cost of the right to see?”
― Kōbō Abe, The Face of Another

“The torment of imprisonment lies in not being able to escape from oneself at any time. I too was wretchedly floundering around, tightly closed into the bag of myself.”
― Kōbō Abe, The Face of Another

“Our silence was not the vacuum that comes from having said all there is to say. Whatever conversation we had fell naturally to pieces and crumbled in bitter silence.”
― Kōbō Abe, The Face of Another

“Whatever signboard of a face I hung out, I certainly had no need to select some shipwrecked castaway for the inside.”
― Kōbō Abe, The Face of Another