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“Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.

Everything passes.

That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.

Everything passes.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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“What did he mean by "society"? The plural of human beings?”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: pain

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“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: adults, antoine-de-saint-exupery, children, philosophy, the-little-prince

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“Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the world is composed entirely of unhappy people. But those people can fight their unhappiness with society fairly and squarly, and society for its part easily understands and sympathizes with such struggles. My unhappiness stemmed entirely from my own vices, and I had no way of fighting anybody.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

tags: dark, japanese-literature, unhappiness

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