Osamu Dazai

Disqualified as a human being

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But happiness is being able to hope, however faintly, for happiness. So, at least, we must believe if we are to live in the world of today.

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

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My eyes would swim in my head, and the whole world grow dark before me, so that I felt half out of my mind.

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A science which is postulated on the assumption that human beings are avaricious through all eternity is utterly devoid of point (whether in problems of distribution or any other aspect) to a person who is not avaricious.

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The thought of dying has never bothered me, but getting hurt, losing blood, becoming crippled and the like—no thanks.

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rom then on, however, I came to hold, almost as a philosophical conviction, the belief: What is society but an individual?”

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Human beings are like that, though. They’ll do the most unbelievably cruel things when you least expect it.

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Not long ago I learned from a certain person in considerable detail about the worthlessness of your character. All the same, it is you who have given me strength, you who have put the rainbow of revolution in my breast. It is you who have given an object to my life.

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Oh, life is too painful, the reality that confirms the universal belief that it is best not to be born.

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I go about saying how pained and tormented, how lonely and sad I feel, but what do I really mean by that? If I were to speak the truth, I would die.

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I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which if borne by my neighbor would be enough to make a murderer out of him.

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Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer "Nothing." The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference, that nothing was going to make me happy.

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Logic, inevitably, is the love of logic. It is not the love for living human beings.

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Nothing was so hard for me to understand, so baffling, and at the same time so filled with menacing overtones as the commonplace remark, “Human beings work to earn their bread, for if they don’t eat, they die.

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Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.

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A mere smile can determine a woman's fate. It is frightening. Fascinatingly so. I have to be careful.

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“Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.

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My eyes would swim in my head, and the whole world grow dark before me, so that I felt half out of my mind.

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It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somewhere an element is lacking which would permit me to continue.

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This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution