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Rahhh I love this guy and how the book is a fictional autobiography

Forgot how to read. Back again <3

"In a world without love the passion to connect can be replaced by the passion to possess. While emotional needs are difficult, and often are impossible to satisfy, material desires are easier to fulfill. Our nation fell into the trap of pathological narcissism in the wake of wars that brought economic bounty while undermining the visions of freedom and justice essential to sustaining democracy."

Gosh I'm so giddy I'm finally getting to read this. So beautiful and real

And at the moment he felt pleasure suffusing his body, Franz himself disintegrated and dissolved into the infinity of his darkness, himself becoming infinite. But the larger a man grows in his own inner darkness, the more his outer form diminishes. A man with closed eyes is a wreck of a man.

oh... oh... OH...

Dazai is the Japanese Camus basically

Every glint of sunlight feels edible, something sweet to swallow and store for the long cold night.

"Gee claims she has no use for men: thinks of them only as obstacles in her path, nuisances who are only occasionally necessary for the propagation of human life. She mistrusts them implicitly. Avoids them when possible"

Yeah girl I get it

Gosh I didn't want to put it down with only 70 pages left but a girl needs her beauty rest

Oh. My. God.

It's very peculiar how I find myself at such parallels to Esther Greenwood

I just finished the Double and it was much different than most of Dostoevsky's writing. Yes, there was no happy ending for a man living through psychosis--but the character was insufferably weak and feeble-minded.

Then he wandered through the narrow, redolent streets of the old part of the city, letting the colors claw at his eyes and the sky devour itself above the houses, the cats sleeping among the summer's filth flattened by the burden of the sun.

Lise is such a vile creature