Happiness may be something like gold dust sinking to the bottom of a river of sorrow, faintly glimmering.
走れ！メロス。
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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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