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    Osamu Dazai
    “I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times over again.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
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    Osamu Dazai
    “Mornings are grey. Always the same. Absolutely empty.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl
    tags: mornings
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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
    “To break free from this vexatious and awful never-ending cycle, this flood of outrageous thoughts, and to long for nothing more than simply to sleep--how clean, how pure, the mere thought of it is exhilarating.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl
    tags: awful, clean, cycle, exhilaration, free, freedom, never-ending, nothing, outrageous, pure, purity, sleep
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    Osamu Dazai
    “God, I ask you. Is trustfulness a sin?”
    ― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
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    Osamu Dazai
    “I am congenitally unable to take much interest in other people,”
    ― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
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    Osamu Dazai
    “Even now, I barely have the strength to reread what I've written.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
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  • #8
    Osamu Dazai
    “Real thought takes courage more than intelligence.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, Crackling Mountain and Other Stories
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  • #9
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “And all I loved, I loved alone.”
    ― Edgar Allen Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind”
    ― Edgar Allen Poe
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  • #11
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Stories and Poems
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Invisible things are the only realities.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Loss of Breath
    tags: humor, satire
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    Franz Kafka
    “Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: honesty, truth-telling, writing
    5106 likes

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    Franz Kafka
    “I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
    tags: kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”
    ― Franz Kafka, The Trial
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    Franz Kafka
    “He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: death, dying, fear, franz, kafka, life
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    Franz Kafka
    “I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
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    Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
    “I could wish for nothing more than to die for a childish dream in which I truly believed.”
    ― Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Mandarins: Stories
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    Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
    “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
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  • #21
    Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
    “He wanted to live life so intensely that he could die at any moment without regrets.”
    ― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, The Life of a Stupid Man
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  • #22
    Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
    “Everyone is the same under the skin.”
    ― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
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