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Osamu Dazai Quote: “To paint something good for once, he said. And said it laughing. Young people never say anything straight. You can tell they’re being honest if they hide behind a laugh.”

351. “To paint something good for once, he said. And said it laughing. Young people never say anything straight. You can tell they’re being honest if they hide behind a laugh.”

— Osamu Dazai

Osamu Dazai Quote: “Despising each other as we did, we were constantly together, thereby degrading ourselves.”

352. “Despising each other as we did, we were constantly together, thereby degrading ourselves.”

— Osamu Dazai

Osamu Dazai Quote: “The recognition of any reality begins with trust.”

353. “The recognition of any reality begins with trust.”

— Osamu Dazai

Osamu Dazai Quote: “Communal living had proved quite impossible for me. It gave me chills just to hear such words as “the ardor of youth” or “youthful pride”: I could not by any stretch of the imagination soak myself in “college spirit.” The classrooms and the dormitory seemed like the dumping grounds of distorted sexual desires, and even my virtually perfected antics were of no use there.”

354. “Communal living had proved quite impossible for me. It gave me chills just to hear such words as “the ardor of youth” or “youthful pride”: I could not by any stretch of the imagination soak myself in “college spirit.” The classrooms and the dormitory seemed like the dumping grounds of distorted sexual desires, and even my virtually perfected antics were of no use there.”

— Osamu Dazai

Osamu Dazai Quote: “It would have been better had I turned into a character from my own stories. An idle womaniser.”

355. “It would have been better had I turned into a character from my own stories. An idle womaniser.”

— Osamu Dazai

Osamu Dazai Quote: “Welcome to Sadness. Population one.”

356. “Welcome to Sadness. Population one.”

— Osamu Dazai

Osamu Dazai Quote: “If things went well I would like to become his inseparable friend; but if this proved utterly impossible, I had no choice but to pray for his death.”

357. “If things went well I would like to become his inseparable friend; but if this proved utterly impossible, I had no choice but to pray for his death.”

— Osamu Dazai

Osamu Dazai Quote: “I’m afraid I don’t really have a clear understanding of the psychology of the powerful- particularly the absolutely invincible variety, which I’ve never met or known to exist. I’m a story writer with such feeble imaginative powers that unless I myself have experienced something, I can’t write one line- I can’t write a word- about it.”

358. “I’m afraid I don’t really have a clear understanding of the psychology of the powerful- particularly the absolutely invincible variety, which I’ve never met or known to exist. I’m a story writer with such feeble imaginative powers that unless I myself have experienced something, I can’t write one line- I can’t write a word- about it.”

— Osamu Dazai

Osamu Dazai Quote: “I wish I could be glad that I was born, that I am alive, that there are people in the world.”

359. “I wish I could be glad that I was born, that I am alive, that there are people in the world.”

— Osamu Dazai

Osamu Dazai Quote: “The sly ability to steal someone else’s experience and recreate it as if it were my own is the only real talent I possess.”

360. “The sly ability to steal someone else’s experience and recreate it as if it were my own is the only real talent I possess.”

— Osamu Dazai

Osamu Dazai Quote: “It takes an egomaniac like me to play the fool convincingly.”

361. “It takes an egomaniac like me to play the fool convincingly.”

— Osamu Dazai

Osamu Dazai Quote: “The fact is that my fear of being ridiculed is so intense I’d rather beat my critics to the punch.”

362. “The fact is that my fear of being ridiculed is so intense I’d rather beat my critics to the punch.”

— Osamu Dazai

Osamu Dazai Quote: “But there is no limit to a proud and beautiful maiden’s capacity for cruelty.”

363. “But there is no limit to a proud and beautiful maiden’s capacity for cruelty.”

— Osamu Dazai

Osamu Dazai Quote: “No matter how often I tried, she never once complimented me.”

364. “No matter how often I tried, she never once complimented me.”

— Osamu Dazai

Osamu Dazai Quote: “The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual.”

365. “The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual.”

— Osamu Dazai

Osamu Dazai Quote: “God, I ask you, is non-resistance a sin?”

366. “God, I ask you, is non-resistance a sin?”

— Osamu Dazai

Osamu Dazai Quote: “It’s because people have aspirations and ambitions that solitude wears on them. If you don’t have a damn about what the rest of the world is up to, you can be alone for a hundred years- a thousand years- with no difficulty whatsoever. At least, you can if you don’t let criticism bother you.”

367. “It’s because people have aspirations and ambitions that solitude wears on them. If you don’t have a damn about what the rest of the world is up to, you can be alone for a hundred years- a thousand years- with no difficulty whatsoever. At least, you can if you don’t let criticism bother you.”

— Osamu Dazai

Osamu Dazai Quote: “What am I but a tangle of uncertainty and pride? That just sums up this novel. Ah, why do I hasten to pass judgment on everything? Who instilled me with this sick imperative to pin down every thought?”

368. “What am I but a tangle of uncertainty and pride? That just sums up this novel. Ah, why do I hasten to pass judgment on everything? Who instilled me with this sick imperative to pin down every thought?”

— Osamu Dazai

Osamu Dazai Quote: “If you keep a goldfish in captivity but don’t take care of it then it won’t live more than a month. Even if it’s a lie, give me my pride, my freedom, and the rolling green meadows!”

369. “If you keep a goldfish in captivity but don’t take care of it then it won’t live more than a month. Even if it’s a lie, give me my pride, my freedom, and the rolling green meadows!”

— Osamu Dazai

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