Disqualified as a human being. I had now ceased utterly to be a human being.

人間は、しばしば希望にあざむかれるが、しかし、また、「絶望」という観念にも同様にあざむかれる事がある。

Osamu Dazai

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Osamu Dazai

Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) was a Japanese novelist whose confessional masterpiece 'No Longer Human' remains one of Japan's best-selling novels. A troubled genius who struggled with addiction and multiple suicide attempts, his raw, darkly humorous prose captured the despair and self-loathing of postwar Japan with unflinching honesty.

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Osamu Dazai's Other Quotes

弱虫は、幸福をさえおそれるものです。綿で怪我をするんです。

Mine has been a life of much shame.

Happiness may be something like gold dust sinking to the bottom of a river of sorrow, faintly glimmering.

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