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“(They were happy, the two of them. I'd been a fool to come between them. I might destroy them both if I were not careful. A humble happiness. A good mother and a child. God, I thought, if you listen to the prayer of people like myself, grant me happiness once, only once in my whole lifetime will be enough! Hear my prayer!)
I felt like getting down on my knees to pray then and there. I shut the door softly, went to the Ginza, and did not return to the apartment.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human