Нет иного пути возвыситься над трудом, как посредством самого труда. Не труд сам по себе имеет ценность, а преодоление труда трудом… Истинная ценность труда в силе его самоотрицания…
Kōbō AbeI personally feel that a box, far from being a dead end, is an entrance to another world. I don't know to where, but an entrance to somewhere, some other world.
Kōbō AbeIt was as if, without realizing it, I had been completely disarmed by her legs.
Kōbō AbeIt is manifestly pregnant and has a bulging white belly heavy with its load of kittens.
Kōbō AbeIf there were no risk of a punishment, a getaway would lose the pleasure.
Kōbō AbeWhat in heaven's name was the real essence of this beauty? Was it the precision of nature with its physical laws, or was it nature's mercilessness, ceaselessly resisting man's understanding?
Kōbō AbeTag: beauty-in-nature
If from the beginning you always believed that a ticket was only one-way, then you wouldn't have to try so vainly to cling to the sand like an oyster to a rock.
Kōbō AbeTag: moving-forward
Certainly sand was not suitable for life. Yet, was a stationary condition absolutely indispensable for existence? Didn't unpleasant competition arise precisely because one tried to cling to a fixed position? If one were to give up a fixed position and abandon oneself to the movement of the sands, competition would soon stop. Actually, in the deserts flowers bloomed and insects and other animals lived their lives. These creatures were able to escape competition through their great ability to adjust--for example, the man's beetle family.
While he mused on the effect of the flowing sands, he was seized from time to time by hallucinations in which he himself began to move with the flow.
Tag: competition adaptability fixity
Будем каждое утро тщательно разглаживать любовь утюгом…
Kōbō AbeHis expression hardened. It was unpleasant to have feelings that he had been at pains to check aroused to no purpose
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