People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a “social outcast” from the moment I was born. If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness.
Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm. - Osamu Dazai
Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm.
- Osamu Dazai
Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit. - Osamu Dazai
Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit.
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 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.
The real things are apt to be deviant. - Osamu Dazai
The real things are apt to be deviant.
For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the exp… - Osamu Dazai
For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the exp…
The weak fear happiness itself. - Osamu Dazai
The weak fear happiness itself.
I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought … - Osamu Dazai
I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought …
It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling. - Osamu Dazai
It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling.
What uneasiness lies in being loved. - Osamu Dazai
What uneasiness lies in being loved.
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