☆Daria☆

“Yes -- or rather, it's not so much that I want to die as that I'm tired of living.”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories

“It is important-even necessary-for us to become acutely aware of the fact that we can't trust ourselves. The only ones you can trust to some extent are people who really know that. We had better get this straight.”
― Akutagawa Ryūnosuke

“I may wear the skin of an urbane sophisticate, but in this manuscript I invite you to strip it off and laugh at my stupidity.”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, The Life of a Stupid Man

“A shimmering of heat—
Outside the grave
Alone I dwell.”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, The Life of a Stupid Man