MalNich

“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

“Russian stories never have happy endings.”
― Bill Browder, Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice

“Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, declaring (without offering the least help) that I should have gone on living my full complement of days, is assuredly a prodigy among men quite capable of tranquilly urging the Emperor to open a fruit shop.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

“What is yarusenai?
It's that one email you never replied to and will never open. It's the bad advice you gave and the phone call you should have made and everything that came out of it. It's thinking about the friends that you suspect you might have been able to save.”
― Jake Adelstein, Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan