Kobo Abe quotes We have 22 quotes for this author ✍️

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Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?

Kobo Abe The Woman in the Dunes books philosophy

Defeat begins with the fear that one had lost.

Kobo Abe The Woman in the Dunes challenge defeat fear

Just as trees bear their fruit before winter, just as bamboo grass produces its seeds just before it withers, sex is simply a struggle with death on the human level.

Kobo Abe The Face of Another death life sex struggle

You can only do what you can no matter how you try.

Kobo Abe The Box Man efforts possibilities self society

If I were just in trousers, somehow I could go out into the world. It would make no difference whether I was naked from the waist up and my feet bare just as long as I had trousers…

Kobo Abe The Box Man society

Clinging to one’s outward appearance interferes with living.

Kobo Abe The Box Man appearances decency society

These days only a guerrilla or a box man would want to cover up his identity to the extent of refusing the convenience of instalment buying. But I am that box man. A representative…

Kobo Abe The Box Man consumerism outcast resistance society

I want to spy on all sorts of places, and the box is a portable hole that occurred to me under the circumstances, it being impossible to punch holes throughout the world.

Kobo Abe The Box Man identity society voyeurism

One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society.

Kobo Abe Secret Rendezvous civilization society survival

The future is forever a projection of the present.

Kobo Abe Inter Ice Age 4 future life present

Similar crossword clues

Son of Abe 66.67%
BURROWS, ABE 63.16%
Like Abe 62.50%
Word for Abe 60.00%
Actor Abe 58.82%
Kobo and Burrows 58.33%
Abe's babe 55.56%
Abe 54.55%
Mary, to Abe 52.63%
Son of Abe Like 52.17%
Kobo ___, Japanese writer 50.00%
ABE KOBO 50.00%
Attribute of Abe 50.00%
Ike or Honest Abe, e.g. 48.28%
Bill with Abe 47.62%
Eighty, to Abe 47.62%
Stage Abe 47.06%
New York mayor Abe 46.15%
Bandleader Abe 45.45%
ABE PARENT 44.44%

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Unscramble KOBO 4-letter words that start with K 4-letter words that end in O 4-letter words containing OB 4-letter words containing BO 4-letter words with K and O

Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day

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N

Hint 1 meaning

The old plural of Eye.

Hint 2 anagram

NEE

Hint 3 another clue

AND STILL ___

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