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论救错反派的下场 Mistakenly Saving the Villain

by Feng Yu Nie

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南禅 [Nan Chan]

by Tang Jiu Qing

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“At this moment, as I stood on the verge of tears, the words "realism" and "romanticism" welled up within me. I have no sense of realism. And that this very fact might be what permits me to go on living sends cold chills through my whole body.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

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“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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“What is society but an individual? [...] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

tags: depression, fear, friendship, life, loneliness, mental-illness, paranoia, people, school, social-anxiety, social-awkwardness, society, work

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“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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“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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