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“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

“Every family,” he jested, “has a fool—just to keep it in touch with reality.”
― Osamu Dazai, Crackling Mountain and Other Stories

“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

“By living this way, what will my fortune be? There is nothing. Am I simply a sickly man? What should I do? I had no direction, nothing. I thought that this reckless life of mine was only a nuisance to others and devoid of meaning. This was quite hard to bear.”
― Osamu Dazai, パンドラの匣