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“What am I but a tangle of uncertainty and pride?”
― Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery

“The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.”
― Albert Camus

“But do you know, gentlemen, what was the chief point about my spite? Why, the whole point, the real sting of it lay in the fact that continually, even in the moment of the acutest spleen, I was inwardly conscious with shame that I was not only not a spiteful but not even embittered man, that I was simply scaring sparrows at random and amusing myself by it. I might foam at the mouth, but bring me a doll to play with, give me a cup of tea with sugar in it, and maybe I should be appeased. I might even be genuinely touched, though probably I should grind my teeth at myself afterwards and lie awake at night with shame for months.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

“The fact is that my fear of being ridiculed is so intense I'd rather beat my critics to the punch.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery