"This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution."
- Osamu Dazai
"I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being..."
"All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest. It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should ..."
"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 expression on people's faces."
"I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. I have never, not even once, acted on the basis of any doctrine or philosophy.I am convinced that th..."
"He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost."
"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."
"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 cou..."
"It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character."
"Last year nothing happenedThe year before nothing happenedAnd the year before that nothinghappened."