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“The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual. The ocean is not society; it is the individual.”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human
“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.”
― The Woman in the Dunes
― The Woman in the Dunes
“What is society but an individual? [...] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human
“There wasn't a single item of importance [in the newspaper]. A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of important things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the center of his compass at his own home.”
― The Woman in the Dunes
― The Woman in the Dunes
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