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“The thought of dying has never bothered me, but getting hurt, losing blood, becoming crippled and the like—no thanks.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“I could believe in hell, but it was impossible for me to believe in the existence of heaven.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“The weak fear happiness itself.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“Disqualified as a human being.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“Disqualified as a human beings. I had now ceased utterly to be a human beings.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“I know that I am liked by other people, but I seem to be deficient in the faculty to love others. (I should add that I have very strong doubts as to whether even human beings really possess this faculty.)”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however slightly, and I am at once seized by a shivering violent enough to make me dizzy.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“the more I feared people the more I was liked, and the more I was liked the more I feared them—a process which eventually compelled me to run away from everybody.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“What uneasiness lies in being loved.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“Human beings never submit to human beings.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“The "world," after all, was still a place of bottomless horror.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“I have frantically played the clown in order to distangle myself from these painful relationships, only to wear myself out as a result.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“It’s his father’s fault,” she said unemotionally. “The Yozo we knew was so easy-going and amusing, and if only he hadn’t drunk—no, even though he did drink—he was a good boy, an angel.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“Women found in me a man who could keep a love secret.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“It occurred to me that prison life might actually be pleasanter than groaning away my sleepless nights in hellish dread of the "realities of life" as led by human beings.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“それは、自分の、人間に対する最後の求愛でした”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn’t matter how, I’ll be all right. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won’t mind it too much I remain outside their lives.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human