"I could wish for nothing more than to……" — RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
"I could wish for nothing more than to die for a childish dream in which I truly believed."
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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
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16 Quotes by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
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I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of…
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No matter how accomplished one might be in any branch of learning or art, one would have to be condemned…
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A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who…
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I have heard unsavory rumors about you and the umbrella-maker's daughter
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I don't have the strength to keep writing this. To go on living with this feeling is painful beyond description.…
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..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask.
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17. Butterfly A butterfly fluttered its wings in a wind thick with the smell of seaweed. His dry lips felt…
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Isn't there someone kind enough to come strangle me in my sleep?
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He felt so lost, he said later, that the familiar studio felt like a haunted valley deep in the mountains,…
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Chained inside the carriage is a sinful woman. When we set the carriage afire, her flesh will be roasted, her…
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I could have sworn that the man's eyes were no longer watching his daughter dying in agony, that instead the…
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As you can imagine, those who had fallen this far had been so worn down by their tortures in the…