Kobo Abe grew up in Mukden. Mukden is another name for Shenyang.
"I think we had simply abandoned hope from the beginning. Passion is the urge to burn oneself out. . . . We were afraid of stopping loving before burning out, but we were not sure we wanted to go on the way people usually do. We could not imagine things so far as a half year in the future, as when the room would be full of garbage. . . . Words themselves had already begun to lose their meaning. Time had stopped. Three days, three weeks were all the same. No matter how long our love goes on burning, when it is burnt out it is over in an instant"
Kobo Abe (1924-1993)
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"To write or to commit suicide. Which one will it be? [...] Many people ask why a writer commits suicide. But I think the people who ask don't know the vanity and the nothingness of writing. I think it is very usual and natural for a writer to commit suicide, because in order to keep on writing he must be a very strong person."
K. A.
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