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    Osamu Dazai
    “Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.

    Everything passes.

    That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.

    Everything passes.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
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    Osamu Dazai
    “For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
    tags: depression, fear, friendship, human-relationships, life, loneliness, mental-illness, social-anxiety, social-awkwardness, trust
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    Osamu Dazai
    “Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
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    Osamu Dazai
    “Living itself is the source of sin.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
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    Osamu Dazai
    “Last year nothing happened
    The year before nothing happened
    And the year before that nothing
    happened.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
    tags: japanese, war
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    Osamu Dazai
    “I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
    tags: death, depression, dying, fear, future, life, living, sadness
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  • #7
    Osamu Dazai
    “Disqualified as a human being.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
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    Osamu Dazai
    “The weak fear happiness itself.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
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    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 their time with me.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
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    Osamu Dazai
    “In spite of my suffering, at the thought that I was sure to end up by killing myself, I cried aloud and burst into tears.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
    tags: death, dying, suicide
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    Osamu Dazai
    “Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man's got to fake just to stay alive.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
    tags: fake, life, living, people, people-relations, society, struggle, survival
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    Osamu Dazai
    “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
    tags: apathy, despair, melancholia, mourning, suffering
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    Osamu Dazai
    “My unhappiness stemmed entirely from my own vices, and I had no way of fighting anybody.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
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    Osamu Dazai
    “I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness — they're heartbreaking.[...] What feelings do you suppose a man has when he realizes that he will never know happiness or glory as long as he lives? Hard work. All that amounts to is food for the wild beasts of hunger.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
    tags: alcoholic, alcoholism, drinking, life, life-and-death, living, loneliness, misery, work
    66 likes

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    Osamu Dazai
    “I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. I have never, not even once, acted on the basis of any doctrine or philosophy.I am convinced that those people whom the world considers good and respects are all liars and fakes. I do not trust the world.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
    tags: doctrine, liars, life, lying, philosophy, society, thoughts, trust, world
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  • #16
    Osamu Dazai
    “Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
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  • #17
    Osamu Dazai
    “I smiled in my weakness.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
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  • #18
    Osamu Dazai
    “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
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    Osamu Dazai
    “From then on, however, I came to hold, almost as a philosophical conviction, the belief: What is society but an individual?”
    ― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
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    Osamu Dazai
    “Everything passes.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
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  • #21
    Osamu Dazai
    “I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which if borne by my neighbor would be enough to make a murderer out of him.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
    tags: crime, depression, life, murder, sadness, struggle, suffering
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  • #22
    Osamu Dazai
    “They scolded us for not having any real hopes or real ambitions, but if we were to pursue our true ideals, would these people watch and guide us along the way?”
    ― Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl
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  • #23
    Osamu Dazai
    “Logic, inevitably, is the love of logic. It is not the love for living human beings.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
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