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“Beautifully manipulated and in utter abandonment,
Raising upon the swell of the chanter’s voice,
She weeps and weeps as if to drown herself,
Okaru weeps…”
Hakushū Kitahara

Oscar Wilde
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
Oscar Wilde

“Do you remember my friend Fumiko Kobayashi? She loaned me a book by a university professor named Taki Sugiyama Lebra, Japanese Patterns of Behaviour, and she writes that death, particularly voluntary death, is surrounded in this country by a heroic, romantic, aesthetic and emotional aura. She says we often find it hard to communicate and use suicide to make our ideas, or beliefs, or sufferings known. I don't know whether I believe that or not.”
James Trager, Letters from Sachiko: A Japanese Woman's View of Life in the Land of the Economic Miracle

“Robbers, thieves, smugglers, and cheats know their own local and personal circumstances and conditions extremely well, and pay the most active attention to their business; but it by no means follows therefrom, that society is in the best condition where such individuals are at least restrained in the exercised of their private industry.”
Friedrich List, National System of Political Economy

Osamu Dazai
“Speech blossoms from anxiety… words were fermented from the uncertainty of existence, like poisonous red mushrooms sprout from the rotting earth. It’s true we have words of joy and pleasure, but aren’t those the most unnatural and contrived of them all? Apparently, human beings experience anxiety even in the midst of joy. But in a place without anxiety, there’s no need for such ignoble contrivances.”
Osamu Dazai, Urashima san

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