Quotes by Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

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This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution. — Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. I have never, not ev — Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
In spite of my suffering, at the thought that I was sure to end up by killing myself, I cried aloud and burst into tears — Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had — Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character. — Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
Last year nothing happenedThe year before nothing happenedAnd the year before that nothinghappened. — Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
For the first time in my life I realized what a horrible, miserable, salvationless hell it is to be without money. — Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband's, if she has a shining pride, they become a holy mother and — Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man's got to fake just to stay alive. — Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It's straightforward. But people almost never say, "Die!" Paltry, pr — Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
I wonder if there is anyone who is not depraved. A wearisome thought.I want money. Unless I have it....In my sleep, a na — Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness. — Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away th — Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, — Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somewhere an element is l — Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions altogether occupy a bare one p — Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosophy, education, religi — Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, declaring (without offeri — Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
I am sure that the reason why I wept and stormed as if I had gone off my head was that the combination of physical exhau — Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
I must go on living. And, though itmay be childish of me, I can't go on insimple compliance. From now on I muststruggle — Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun