Osamu Dazai

A Shameful Life

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  • drgnnxhas quoted5 years ago
    Human life is so full of pure, vivid, merry duplicity that I begin to think they don’t even realize they are deceiving one another.
  • b6163338672has quoted3 years ago
    little by little, I was transformed into an eccentric clown.

    I would do anything so long as it made people laugh, it didn’t matter what.
  • b6163338672has quoted3 years ago
    I’ve never heard anyone say that people live for money
  • b6163338672has quoted3 years ago
    people live to eat
  • b6163338672has quoted3 years ago
    What are they thinking about when they are walking down the street? Money?
  • drgnnxhas quoted5 years ago
    Concerned with representing the thoughts, feelings, and anxieties of the author/narrator/protagonist with the greatest possible fidelity, I-novel narratives were not overly concerned with plot development or with showing how a character transforms or overcomes a particular problem.
  • drgnnxhas quoted5 years ago
    The true coward is frightened even by happiness. He is bruised even by cotton wool. He is wounded even by joy.
  • drgnnxhas quoted5 years ago
    At the time, the prospect of being arrested as a party member and imprisoned, even if it was for life, didn’t trouble me in the slightest. Compared to the terror I felt toward “real life” in human society and the hellish torments of my nightly insomnia, I sometimes thought that life in prison might be an improvement.
  • drgnnxhas quoted5 years ago
    Desire is too weak a word for it, as is vanity.
  • drgnnxhas quoted5 years ago
    Women were a hundred times more difficult for me to understand than men.
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