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In return for all the sins and crimes of men, the gods created me with glistening long black hair and pale, inviting skin.

Yosano Akiko, River of Stars: Selected Poems of Yosano Akiko

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Given my lack of experience, if my books were taken away from me, I would be utterly devastated. That’s how much I depend on what’s written in books. I’ll read one book and be completely wild about it - I’ll trust it, I’ll assimilate it, I’ll sympathize with it, I’ll try to make it a part of my life. Then, I’ll read another book and instantly, I’ll switch over to that one.

Dazai Osamu, Schoolgirl

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What is love? What is fame? I don’t want to be the slave of either one of them. I want to live a free, simple, healthy, independent life! Yes, yes. I desire to live like a lion in a desert. Some may criticize me for my lack of discretion and culture. I care not whatever they may say. Who can oppress me with the duty of the world, and the service of humanity? Have I not my own right of freedom, independence, and peace? I am not such a pedant as to deceive myself as well as other people at the expense of ethics … Yes, real happiness lies in this valley and in the woods.

Kunikida Doppo, “Going Home Again” from Selected Stories of Doppo Kunikida

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All my life I’ve never known what scorn or hate or anger or jealousy feel like. I just copy other people and make a show out of hating or despising certain things. In reality, I don’t understand any of it. I have no idea what it feels like to hate someone, to detest someone, to feel jealousy.

Dazai Osamu, A New Hamlet

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If you can’t be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.

Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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What the hell, I thought, I’ll piss it all away on booze. I’ll get by somehow, whatever happens afterwards. If it turns out I can't get by - well, even if it comes to that, I’ll probably get by somehow.

Dazai Osamu, “Two Little Words” from Self Portraits

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Art, according to him, was the revolt of humans against nature. It was none other than the expression of a human being’s dissatisfaction with the way things are and his desire to imprint his own individual personality upon nature.

Edogawa Ranpo, Strange Tale of Panorama Island

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Amiable smiles radiate from his rather narrow eyes, so crystal clear that they appear as if they had caught the bright glow of full-blown cherry-blossoms. However, a closer look may bring to light the sober truth that complete happiness does not always dwell therein. For his smiles seem to yearn after something far away and to frown upon everything nearby.

Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, “Heichu, the Amorous Genius” from Japanese Short Stories by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke

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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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no desire to die no desire to live the wind blows over me

Taneda Santōka, For All My Walking

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This sorrow within me feels like it’s rising up to release a massive groan.

Dazai Osamu, A New Hamlet

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And so I reached the age of twenty-five, having barely cast a glance at anything but books and ruins and knowing nothing of life; I spent all my fervor in my work. I loved a few friends… but it was not so much my friends I loved as friendship - it was a craving for high-mindedness that made my devotion to them so great; I cherished in myself each and all of my fine feelings. For the rest, I knew my friends as little as I knew myself.

André Gide, The Immoralist

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Here it is! The full performance of Een Klein Leven, in its 4-hour-long glory. Note that the portion originally missing from the English stream is not subtitled but features precious little dialogue anyhow. My endless thanks to _ZERO-ErRoR_ZROE for putting all of it together. Further thanks to all of you who contributed your recordings–none of this would have been possible without you.

Enjoy!

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But don’t you realize just a little that I’ve wanted to live a normal life? And how hard I’ve worked for it? I’ve been hanging by a thread, and it’ll break with a bit more weight. I tried my best to be careful, though. You see that, don’t you? I’m not weak, my troubles are just too heavy. It’s stupid to talk like this. But if I don’t speak out loud and clear, people are taken in by my cheeky manner. Even you are. ‘He’s only acting when he talks about his troubles’ – that’s how casually you all take me.

Dazai Osamu, “Putting Granny out to Die” from Dazai Osamu: Selected Stories and Sketches

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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

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asheiji banter adds meaning to my life

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Futarigurashi 4-Koma Chapter 5 Scans, Cleaning: Sophinarina Translation, Typesetting: Ikezuyawa Proofreading: Y

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