Kobo: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War

“Loneliness was an unsatisfied thirst for illusion.””

— Unknown

“Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?””

— Unknown

“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.””

— Unknown

“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.””

— Unknown

“Everyone has his own philosophy that doesn't hold good for anybody else.””

— Unknown

“Only the happy ones return to contentment. Those who were sad return to despair.””

— Unknown

“The fish you don't catch is always the biggest.””

— Unknown

“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.””

— Unknown

“He wanted to believe that his own lack of movement had stopped all movement in the world, the way a hibernating frog abolishes winter.””

— Unknown