Kenzaburo Oe Quotes

Δεν ήμουν κατάλληλα προετοιμασμένος για το ρόλο του πατέρα κι έτσι δεν μπόρεσα ν' αποκτήσω ένα φυσιολογικό παιδί.

He grasped at a prescient feeling, akin to the dialectic of dreams, that this reunion could never come to pass, yet somehow--it most definitely would.

You’re trying to make something relative out of the irrevocability of your husband’s death by assuming another universe where he is still alive. But you can’t make the absoluteness of death relative,...

Suddenly he is sighted by a giant phacochoere.

Probably the sky a hundred yards or so above your head is still nothing more than sky to you. But all that means is that the storehouse happens to be empty at the moment.

Мой приятель, врач, говорил, что существует два типа самоубийства. Каждый из них можно определить буквально в двух словах. Тип «помогите мне» и тип «я отвратителен». «Самоубийство» по оплошности, нева...

Now I was just a transient in the valley, a one-eyed passerby too fat for his years, and life there had the power to summon up neither the memory nor the illusion of any other, truer self. As a passer...

Right now you're about the least attractive Bird I've ever seen...But I'll sleep with you just the same. I haven't been fastidious about morality since my husband committed suicide; besides, even if y...

It's a little bit like what Akari said to his grandmother in Shikoku, during her final illness: 'Please cheer up and die!

You’re right about this being limited to me, it’s entirely a personal matter. But with some personal experiences that lead you way into a cave all by yourself, you must eventually come to a side tunne...

Kafka, you know, wrote in a letter to his father, the only thing a parent can do for a child is to welcome it when it arrives.

He was performing the role of the young husband who has been visited by sudden misfortune.

Can you tell me which is yours? Standing at Bird's side, the nurse spoke as if she were addressing the father of the hospital's healthiest and most beautiful baby. But she wasn't smiling, she didn't e...

More often than not he finds what he is looking for, and it destroys him.

Σε ποια κατηγορία νεκρών θα κατέτασσες, θα κατηγορούσες και θα καταδίκαζες ένα μωρό με λειτουργίες φυτού, που είχε πεθάνει τη στιγμή που είχε γεννηθεί;

Nelle tenebre profonde del sotterraneo, agitate da vorticosi mulinelli di vento, vidi gli occhi di un gatto morente, un gatto maschio tigrato che avevo tenuto da quando ero studente fino al mio matrim...

Once a person has been poisoned by self-deception, he can't make decisions about himself as neatly as all that.

Once a problem's solved, the things that have been plaguing you seem terribly stupid and trivial.

Peril-ridden and fragile, the imperfect human body, what a shameful thing it was!

Воображению Исана сознание Дзина рисовалось как нечто схожее с сердцевиной яйца. В скорлупе заключена жидкая кровяная сыворотка, замутненная чем-то вроде белка. И в нем — сознание: комочек желтка. Есл...