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“As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn’t matter how, I’ll be alright. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won’t mind it too much if I remain outside their lives. The one thing I must avoid is becoming offensive in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“I lived so carefully, thinking someone was watching. But the stage was empty, the audience never came.”
― Osamu Dazai

“Living itself is the source of sin.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“Whenever anyone criticized me I felt certain that I had been living under the most dreadful misapprehension. I always accepted the attack in silence, though inwardly so terrified as almost to be out of my mind.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human