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Disqualified as a human being.

Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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I would be forever branded on the forehead with the  word "madman" or perhaps, "reject".

Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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I suppose it would not be exaggeration to say that the world is composed entirely of unhappy people.

Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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A wound was to throb with pain whenever I came in contact with a human being.

Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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

Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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The "world" after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could be settled by a single then-and-there decision.

Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual.

Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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It is the struggle between one individual and another, a then-and-there struggle in which the immediate triumph is everything.

Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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Human beings never submit to human beings.

Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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I was plagued by a heavy sense of loss, as if my heart had become empty.

Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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Things will take care of themselves, in one way or another.

Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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I know that I am liked by other people, but I seem to be deficient in the faculty to love others.

Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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I have frantically played the clown in order to disentangle myself from these painful relationships, only to wear out myself as a result.

Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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Though I have always made it my practice to be pleasant to everybody , I have not once actually experienced friendship.

Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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I wish you would show me that you're resolved to make a real effort to turn over a new leaf.

Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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I yearned with such desperation for "freedom" that I became weak and tearful.

Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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We entered the water together. She died I was saved.

Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human