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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. Isn't there someone kind enough to strangle me in my sleep?”
― Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories

“It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide.”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories

“Yes -- or rather, it's not so much that I want to die as that I'm tired of living.”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories

“He wanted to live life so intensely that he could die at any moment without regrets.”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, The Life of a Stupid Man

“..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask.”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

“I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves.”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories

“As he thought about his life, he felt both tears and mockery welling up inside him. All that lay before him was madness or suicide. He walked down the darkening street alone, determined now to wait for the destiny that would come to annihilate him.”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, The Life of a Stupid Man

“It is important-even necessary-for us to become acutely aware of the fact that we can't trust ourselves. The only ones you can trust to some extent are people who really know that. We had better get this straight.”
― Akutagawa Ryūnosuke

“A shimmering of heat—
Outside the grave
Alone I dwell.”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, The Life of a Stupid Man

“Life is more hellish than hell itself.”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories

“I may wear the skin of an urbane sophisticate, but in this manuscript I invite you to strip it off and laugh at my stupidity.”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, The Life of a Stupid Man

“Everyone is the same under the skin.”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories