Status Updates From The Saga of Dazai Osamu: A ...

“At ten, a democrat; at twenty, a communist; at thirty, a pure aesthete; at forty, a conservative.”

“The first lesson that turns a youth into an adult is that you cannot trust people. An adult is a youth betrayed.”
(from “Tsugaru”)

“…Dazai created a unified, many-chaptered narrative out of the confused and accidental events of his life and presented it as the life struggles of a strongly engaging character we call “Osamu,” as he himself did in some stories.”

Truly, the joy of being together fades quickly; the grief of parting is deep. It's not too much to say that we generally live in the sentiment of parting. (Notes on Good-bye)