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“The consciousness of life is higher than life, the knowledge of happiness is higher than happiness”

“What is a dream? And what about our life? Is that not a dream too?”

“The fact is, I—corrupted them all!”

“Granted that my heart was responsible for my dream, but could my heart alone have been responsible for the awful truth of what happened to me afterward? “

“why could I not hate them without loving them too? why could I not forgive them?”

“I love, I can only love the earth I’ve left behind, stained with my blood when, ungrateful wretch that I am, I extinguished my life by shooting myself through the heart. But never, never have I ceased to love that earth, and even on the night I parted from it I loved it perhaps more poignantly than ever.”

“ I did not expect anything, accepting the idea that a dead man had nothing to expect as an incontestable fact.”

“But what does it matter whether it was a dream or not, so long as that dream revealed the Truth to me? For once you have recognized the truth and seen it, you know it is the one and only truth and that there can be no other, whether you are asleep or awake. “

“Dreams seem to be induced not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what clever tricks my reason has sometimes played on me in dreams! “

“ I was going to shoot myself. I knew I should shoot myself that night for certain. What I did not know was how much longer I should go on sitting at the table till I shot myself. “

relatable.

“I am a ridiculous person.” So this is how the story start and how the main character is introduced.

That wasn’t just heartbreaking, it was downright cruel.

To believe you’ve finally reached everything you’ve ever wanted, only to have it all ripped away in an instant 🫠

“Unhappy people are sensitive to the unhappiness of others.”

“The ocean is not society; it is individuals.”

“Society. […] It is the struggle between one individual and another, a then-and-there struggle, in which the immediate triumph is everything. Human beings never submit to human beings. […] The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual.”

“Society won’t stand for it.

It’s not society. You’re the one who won’t stand for it—right?

If you do such a thing society will make you suffer for it.

It’s not society. It’s you, isn’t it?

Before you know it, you’ll be ostracized by society.

It’s not society. You’re going to do the ostracizing, aren’t you?”

“What, I wondered, did he mean by “society”? The plural of human beings? Where was the substance of this thing called “society”? I had spent my whole life thinking that society must certainly be something powerful, harsh and severe, but to hear Horiki talk made the words “Don’t you mean yourself?” come to the tip of my tongue”

“What is society but an individual?”