Osamu Dazai

I want to spend my time with people who don't look to be respected. But such good people won't want to spend…

— Osamu Dazai

“Disqualified as a human being. I had now ceased utterly to be a human being.”

— Osamu Dazai

I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of…

— Osamu Dazai

“Tomorrow will probably be another day like today. Happiness will never come my way. I know that. But it's probably best to…

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“When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had…

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One day, I went to a soba restaurant outside town, and while I was waiting for the zarusoba I opened an old…

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“I feel so unhappy.” I am sure that this one phrase whispered to me would arouse my sympathy more than the longest,…

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I soon came to understand that drink, tobacco and prostitutes were all great means if dissipating (even for a few moments) my…

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“Of late a gloomy rain has been falling almost incessantly. Whatever I do depresses me.”

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“All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely…

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Last year nothing happened The year before nothing happened And the year before that nothing happened.

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“Disqualified as a human being.”

— Osamu Dazai

“Logic, inevitably, is the love of logic. It is not the love for living human beings.”

— Osamu Dazai

I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die…

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But happiness is being able to hope, however faintly, for happiness. So, at least, we must believe if we are to live…

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In my case such an expression as 'to be fallen for' or even 'to be loved' is not in the least appropriate;…

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“Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.”

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The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where…

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“The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual. The ocean is not society; it is individuals.”

— Osamu Dazai

“I didn't know whether it was better to maintain a fierce distinction between yourself and your acquaintances in society in order to…

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“Now, even when I make an outfit for myself, I wonder what other people will think. The truth is that I secretly…

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“In spite of my suffering, at the thought that I was sure to end up by killing myself, I cried aloud and…

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What did he mean by "society"? The plural of human beings?

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I have often felt that I would find it more complicated, troublesome and unpleasant to ascertain the feelings by which a woman…

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“He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.”

— Osamu Dazai