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Ryunosuke Akutagawa quotes: A shimmering of heatOutside the graveAlone I dwell.

A shimmering of heat
Outside the grave
Alone I dwell.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa quotes: Life is not worth a single line of Baudelaire."-from "The Life of a Stupid Man

Life is not worth a single line of Baudelaire."
-from "The Life of a Stupid Man

Ryunosuke Akutagawa quotes: I could wish for nothing more than to die for a childish dream in which I truly believed.

I could wish for nothing more than to die for a childish dream in which I truly believed.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa quotes: It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide.

It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa quotes: I have heard unsavory rumors about you and the umbrella-maker's daughter

I have heard unsavory rumors about you and the umbrella-maker's daughter

Ryunosuke Akutagawa quotes: People say they need freedom, but in fact, nobody wants freedom.

People say they need freedom, but in fact, nobody wants freedom.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa quotes: Yes, sir. Certainly, it was I who found the body.

Yes, sir. Certainly, it was I who found the body.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa quotes: Life is more hellish than hell itself.

Life is more hellish than hell itself.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa quotes: Time and tide wait for no man.

Time and tide wait for no man.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa quotes: Do I still love this woman? he asked himself. He was in the habit of observing himself so closely that the answer came as a surprise to him: I do.

Do I still love this woman? he asked himself. He was in the habit of observing himself so closely that the answer came as a surprise to him: I do.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa quotes: What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.

What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa quotes: Great robber though he was, Kandata could only trash about like a dying frog as he choked on the blood of the pond.

Great robber though he was, Kandata could only trash about like a dying frog as he choked on the blood of the pond.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa quotes: Everyone is the same under the skin.

Everyone is the same under the skin.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa quotes: I may wear the skin of an urbane sophisticate, but in this manuscript I invite you to strip it off and laugh at my stupidity.

I may wear the skin of an urbane sophisticate, but in this manuscript I invite you to strip it off and laugh at my stupidity.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa quotes: Yes or rather, it's not so much that I want to die as that I'm tired of living.

Yes
or rather, it's not so much that I want to die as that I'm tired of living.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa quotes: Isn't there someone kind enough to come strangle me in my sleep?

Isn't there someone kind enough to come strangle me in my sleep?

Ryunosuke Akutagawa quotes: I have no conscience at all least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves.

I have no conscience at all
least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa quotes: He wanted to live life so intensely that he could die at any moment without regrets.

He wanted to live life so intensely that he could die at any moment without regrets.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa quotes: E understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask.

E understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask.