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“You’ve treated me nicely, yes, but only because you find me curious and amusing. It’s made me feel so lonely, somehow.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“The smile of one flower permeates those who live next to death more than the problem of life and death.”
― Osamu Dazai, パンドラの匣

“Slim, I hope you ain't sexed that pretty bitch yet. Believe me, Slim, a pimp is really a whore who's reversed the game on whores. Slim, be as sweet as the scratch. Don't be no sweeter. Always stick a whore for a bundle before you sex her. A whore ain't nothing but a trick to a pimp. Don't let em Georgia you. Always get your money in front just like a whore. Whores in a stable are like working chumps in the white man's factory..”
― Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life

“Am I what they call an egoist? Or am I the opposite, a man of excessively weak spirit? I really don't know myself, but since I seem in either case to be a mass of vices, I drop steadily, inevitably, into unhappiness, and I have no specific plan to stave off my descent.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human