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Standing before this symbolic night bursting with stars, I opened myself for the first time to the tender indifference of the world.

- The Outsider, Albert Camus

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So close to death, Mama must have felt set free, ready to live once more.

- The Outsider, Albert Camus

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He wasn't even sure he was alive because he lived life as if he were dead.

- The Outsider, Albert Camus

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Falling asleep is such a strange feeling.

- Schoolgirl, Dazai Osamu

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Nobody in the world understood our suffering. In time, when we became adults, we might look back on this pain and loneliness as a funny thing, perfectly ordinary.

- Schoolgirl, Dazai Osamu

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It made me miserable that I was rapidly becoming an adult and that I was unable to do anything about it.

- Schoolgirl, Dazai Osamu

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I must be easier to relax when someone always told you who you are and what to do.

- Schoolgirl, Dazai Osamu

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She's a bit too poised - there's something unnatural about her. It must be exhausting to be her.

- Schoolgirl, Dazai Osamu

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I begin to realise from various experiences in my life just how enormous our instincts are and how powerless we are against the force that drives us, sometimes I think I might lose my mind.

- Schoolgirl, Dazai Osamu

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A mere smile can determine a woman's fate. It is frightening. Fascinatingly so.

- Schoolgirl, Dazai Osamu

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I think the beauty of your eyes is the best thing about people. [...] I hope I meet lots of people with lovely eyes.

- Schoolgirl, Dazai Osamu

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I like to take my glasses off and look out into the distance. Everything goes hazy, as in a dream.

- Schoolgirl, Dazai Osamu

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Mornings seems so forced to me. So much sadness rises up, I can't bear it.

- Schoolgirl, Dazai Osamu

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Perhaps you should ask a growing vine. The vine may answer. [...] "I don't know. But I grow toward the sunlight."

- Pandora's Box, Dazai Osamu

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Devotion is to live a worthwhile life forever.

- Pandora's Box, Dazai Osamu

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Devotion is nothing like mindlessly killing oneself with hopeless sentimentality.

- Pandora's Box, Dazai Osamu

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A grown-up would probably hide this sweet silly side.

- Pandora's Box, Dazai Osamu