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41 " تکرار به نحوی هولناک ادامه داشت. بی تکرار نمیشد زندگی کرد، مثل ضربان قلب، البته این نکته هم درست بود که ضربان قلب همه چیز زندگی نبود "
― Kōbō Abe , The Woman in the Dunes
42 " Se spune că repetarea continuă a aceloraşi gesturi asigură o formă eficientă de camuflaj. Dacă s-ar topi într-o viaţă de repetări simple, ar sosi poate o vreme cand nu-şi vor mai da seama de prezenţa lui. "
43 " Ar fi greu să înfrunţi natura încercînd să prefaci o pantă blîndă într-una abruptă. "
44 " Ceea ce simţea pentru ea era una, iar ceea ce îi făcuse ea era altceva. "
45 " Loneliness was an unsatisfied thirst for illusion. "
46 " One could not do without repetition in life, like the beating of the heart, but it was also true that the beating of the heart was not all there was to life. "
47 " Everyone has his own philosophy that doesn't hold good for anybody else. "
48 " Only the happy ones return to contentment. Those who were sad return to despair. "
49 " He wanted to believe that his own lack of movement had stopped all movement in the world, the way a hibernating frog abolishes winter. "
50 " The fish you don't catch is always the biggest. "
51 " I rather think the world is like sand. The fundamental nature of sand is very difficult to grasp when you think of it in its stationary state. Sand not only flows, but this very flow is the sand. "
52 " If there were no risk of a punishment, a getaway would lose the pleasure. "
53 " The only way to go beyond work is through work. It is not that work itself is valuable; we surmount work by work. The real value of work lies in the strength of self-denial. "
54 " 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. "
55 " Animal smell is beyond philosophy. "
56 " Sand, which didn't even have a form of it's own. Yet, not a single thing could stand against this shapeless, destructive power. The very fact that it had no form was doubtless the highest manifestation of its strenght, was it not? "
57 " His expression hardened. It was unpleasant to have feelings that he had been at pains to check aroused to no purpose "
58 " -Well, what happens with the River of Hades in the end?-Not a thing. It's an infernal punishment precisely because nothing happens. "
59 " 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. "
60 " 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... "