What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.
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
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.
Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit. - Osamu Dazai
Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit.
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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