Beak

“Although I had a moral dread of human beings I seemed quite unable to renounce their society. I managed to maintain on the surface a smile which never deserted my lips; this was the accommodation I offered to others, a most precarious achievement preformed by me only at the cost of excruciating efforts within.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“He stood up tall and started a speech of his own.
'You can count on me, Takeo Kimura. Until a new day dawns on Saeki's-'
'Thanks, Kumamoto, that'll do.'
My patience had evaporated.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Beggar Student

“If my odious confessions lend this work a modicum of nuance, all the better.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery

“Rather than working and becoming a socially responsible person, rather than listening to my wife's lectures, I wanted to be as idle as the idlest animal on earth. I wanted to cast off as much as possible the meaningless mask of humanity.
I was shy of human society. I was shy of life. Everything was strange and unfamiliar to me.”
― Yi Sang, The Wings