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When I liked something I tasted it hesitantly, furtively, as though it were extremely bitter. — Osamu Dazai

My definition of a "respected" man was one who had succeeded almost completely in hoodwinking people — Osamu Dazai

I yearned for everything long gone. — Osamu Dazai

Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk. — Osamu Dazai

I hope I meet lots of people with lovely eyes. — Osamu Dazai

What did he mean by "society"? The plural of human beings? — Osamu Dazai

Last year nothing happened
The year before nothing happened
And the year before that nothing
happened. — Osamu Dazai

A true artist is an ugly man. — Osamu Dazai

A mere smile can determine a woman's fate. It is frightening. Fascinatingly so. I have to be careful. — Osamu Dazai

Do not pity yourself. If you wallow in self-pity, life will be an endless nightmare. — Kafka Asagiri

I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times over again. — Osamu Dazai

I want to spend my time with people who don't look to be respected. But such good people won't want to spend their time with me. — Osamu Dazai

When you find yourself looking ridiculous, reasoning isn't worth a damn. — Osamu Dazai

Show me what you've written, I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it. — Osamu Dazai

At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips. — Osamu Dazai

Forgive me. I didn't mean to kill you, Polonius. The blade slipped out of the sheath, and it struck you. — Osamu Dazai

Disqualified as a human being. — Osamu Dazai

The thought of dying has never bothered me, but getting hurt, losing blood, becoming crippled and the like - no thanks. — Osamu Dazai

Logic, inevitably, is the love of logic. It is not the love for living human beings. — Osamu Dazai

As for love ... no, having once written that word I can write nothing more. — Osamu Dazai

I go about saying how pained and tormented, how lonely and sad I feel, but what do I really mean by that? If I were to speak the truth, I would die. — Osamu Dazai

Labeled a delinquent. That's the only kind of label I want to be crucified under. — Osamu Dazai

When you've got the devil's own luck, you're immune from the usual run of disasters. Such people must be utilized. — Osamu Dazai

A good book is always good, no matter how many times you've already read it. — Osamu Dazai

Human beings never submit to human beings. — Osamu Dazai

The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people. — Osamu Dazai

Mornings are grey. Always the same. Absolutely empty. — Osamu Dazai

But happiness is being able to hope, however faintly, for happiness. So, at least, we must believe if we are to live in the world of today. — Osamu Dazai

I'm going somewhere where there aren't any women. — Osamu Dazai

I have always found the female of the human species many times more difficult to understand than the male. — Osamu Dazai

I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It's straightforward. But people almost never say, "Die!" Paltry, prudent hypocrites! — Osamu Dazai

Women found in me a man who could keep a love secret. — Osamu Dazai

In spite of my suffering, at the thought that I was sure to end up by killing myself, I cried aloud and burst into tears. — Osamu Dazai

I have never been able to
meet anyone without an accompaniment of painful
smiles, the buffoonery of defeat. — Osamu Dazai

It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character. — Osamu Dazai

Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. — Osamu Dazai

Most people would take me for over forty. — Osamu Dazai

I wonder if there is anyone who is not depraved. A wearisome thought.
I want money. Unless I have it ...
In my sleep, a natural death! — Osamu Dazai

I have frantically played the clown in order to distangle myself from these painful relationships, only to wear myself out as a result. — Osamu Dazai

I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky. — Osamu Dazai

To be a friend of the weak-that is the artist's point of departure as well as his ultimate goal. — Osamu Dazai

Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised. — Osamu Dazai

The real things are apt to be deviant. — Osamu Dazai

Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit. — Osamu Dazai

Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness. — Osamu Dazai

Genuine beauty is always meaningless, without virtue. — Osamu Dazai

In the present world, the most beautiful thing is a victim. — Osamu Dazai

What uneasiness lies in being loved. — Osamu Dazai

Any connoisseur knows you've got to be drunk to really enjoy a good romance. — Osamu Dazai

Everything passes. — Osamu Dazai

My eyes would swim in my head, and the whole world grow dark before me, so that I felt half out of my mind. — Osamu Dazai

What is society but an individual? — Osamu Dazai

hope and passion slip through your fingers like sand and in front of you lies a vast stretch of darkness — Dazai Osamu

This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution. — Osamu Dazai

The weak fear happiness itself. — Osamu Dazai

There's something about you that smells a little of a Christian priest. I find it offensive. — Osamu Dazai

He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost. — Osamu Dazai

Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are. — Osamu Dazai

I'm going to paint too. I'm going to paint pictures of ghosts and devils and horses out of hell. — Osamu Dazai

The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness — Osamu Dazai

The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual. The ocean is not society; it is the individual. — Osamu Dazai

After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it. — Osamu Dazai

Heaven forbid if beauty were to have substance. — Osamu Dazai

If you've slept soundly at night the morning is exhilarating, I suppose. — Osamu Dazai

Living itself is the source of sin. — Osamu Dazai

Disqualified as a human beings. I had now ceased utterly to be a human beings. — Osamu Dazai

I despised him as one fit only for amusement, a man with whom I associated for that sole purpose. — Osamu Dazai

Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband's, if she has a shining pride, they become a holy mother and child. — Osamu Dazai

Love flies out the window when poverty comes in the door, they say, and it's true. — Osamu Dazai

I smiled in my weakness. — Osamu Dazai

It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling. — Osamu Dazai

Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man's got to fake just to stay alive. — Osamu Dazai