Soseki Natsume

felt very lonely. The end of the year, those deaths on the battlefield, senility, life’s insecurity, that time and tide wait for no man, and other thoughts of a similar nature ran around in my head. One often talks about hanging oneself.

I feel extraordinarily happy as I try to picture myself floating on this branch.

I was relieved, and I felt happy, for now I could hang myself with an easy mind.

this very second I experienced a sudden urge to immerse myself in that total darkness from which the voice had summoned me.

this very second I experienced a sudden urge to immerse myself in that total darkness from which the voice had summoned me.

At this very second I experienced a sudden urge to immerse myself in that total darkness from which the voice had summoned me.

At this very second I experienced a sudden urge to immerse myself in that total darkness from which the voice had summoned me.

I merely concluded that human beings were good for nothing, except for the strenuous employment of their mouths for the purpose of whiling away their time in laughter at things which are not funny, and in the enjoyment of amusements which are not amusing.

Their only moderately redeeming feature is that their speech and conduct are less tediously uninventive than those of less subtle creatures.

“Born in Infinity, studied Infinity, and died into Infinity.