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When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn't write a novel, people said I couldn't write. When I acted like a liar, they called me a liar. When I acted like a rich man, they started the rumor I was rich. When I feigned indifference, they classed me as the indifferent type. But when I inadvertently groaned because I was really in pain, they started the rumor that I was faking suffering. The world is out of joint.

Osamu Dazai's Popular Quotes

Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm.

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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.

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Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit.

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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…

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The real things are apt to be deviant.

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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 …

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

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The weak fear happiness itself.

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What uneasiness lies in being loved.

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