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“Young men, if ever the one you love bursts out laughing the moment she sees you, you are to be congratulated.”
― Self-Portraits: Tales from the Life of Japan's Great Decadent Romantic
― Self-Portraits: Tales from the Life of Japan's Great Decadent Romantic
“Isn’t it said that memories only grow more beautiful with time?”
― Otogizōshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu
― Otogizōshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu
“Most drinkers are lonely men, isolated in their own homes. To ask whether they drink because they’re isolated or isolated because the rest of the family disapprove of their drinking would be like clapping and trying to decide which hand made the sound—it can only lead to a lot of vain quibbling.”
― Otogizōshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu
― Otogizōshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu
“I am congenitally unable to take much interest in other people,”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human
“If it failed I had no choice but to hang myself, a resolve which was tantamount to a bet on the existence of God.”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human
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