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“I thought, “I want to die. I want to die more than ever before. There’s no chance now of a recovery. No matter what sort of thing I do, no matter what I do, it’s sure to be a failure, just a final coating applied to my shame. That dream of going on bicycles to see a waterfall framed in summer leaves—it was not for the likes of me. All that can happen now is that one foul, humiliating sin will be piled on another, and my sufferings will become only the more acute. I want to die. I must die. Living itself is the source of sin.”
-Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”
“Searching for memories that aren’t there, this heart of mine
closes itself up”
“I’ve grown accustomed to it all, and have leaned to bear it but sometimes any degree of loneliness can bring you down”
-Nakahara Chūya (1937). “The Poems of Nakahara Chūya”
“I had been devoting myself to writing, an occupation that by rights out inevitably to set one to mulling over one’s youthful experiences.”
-Sakunosuke Oda (1913-43). “Stories of Osaka life”
“Soon the world below my eyes had changed its appearance in a moment. The colorless world, in a flash, had begun to shine with brimming colors. The sun had risen from beyond the eastern rock knoll, which is invisible from here. What magic!”
-Atsushi Nakajima, “Light, Wind, and Dreams”
To punish men for their endless sins, God gave me this fair skin, this long black hair!”
- Yosano Akiko, “Tangled Hair”
“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1866). “Crime and Punishment”
“This world is full of the most outrageous nonsense.
- Nikolai Gogol, “The Nose”
“I don’t have to tell you how despondent I was. But I suppose a dark place like that is better than daylight for strengthening one’s faith and pondering the eternal truths, even for a coward such as myself.”
- Izumi Kyōka, “The Holy Man of Mount Kōya”
“By suggesting this solution I had opened an escape route. ‘Honest’ men like me are always tossed by the waves, yet we manage to ride them.”
- Kunikida Doppo, “An Honest Man”
“I’m beginning a diary of my own. Someone like me, someone who doesn’t open [their] heart to others, needs to talk to [myself] at least.”
- Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, “The Key”
I’m no longer afraid, even of a darkness, as fathomless as that is. I’m sure true happiness can even be found within it. Let’s search for it, however long it takes, or however far we must go.
- Miyazawa Kenji, “Night on the Galactic Railroad”
“My methods are a bit different from yours. Physical evidence and things of that kind can take on all sorts of appearances depending on the point of view. The best method of detection is psychological: to see through to the depths of people’s hearts. But this is a problem of the detective’s own ability”
- Edogawa Ranpo, “The Case of the Murder on D. Hill”
“Life is painful, and that’s why we know pleasure, too. People die, making us aware of life. To be free of pain and death would be tiresome. Better to be an ordinary mortal, knowing pain and death, than to be an immortal.”
- Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, “The Immortal”
“When she felt so awkward and unhappy, flattery only sounded like an insult.”
- Higuchi Ichiyō, “Child’s Play”
“Hide a mistake with a mistake. Hide a crime with a crime. This trick cleverly uses human nature to turn to the tables to one’s advantage.”
- Sakaguchi Ango, “A Family of Shoplifters”
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
- Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven”
“Love! What a searing, torturing, intolerably sweet thing it was–this possession of body, soul and mind! With something at its core as fine and remote and purely spiritual as the tiny blue spark in the heart of the unbreakable diamond. No dream had ever been like this”
- Lucy Maud Montgomery, “The Blue Castle”
“People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven’t you?
- Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Anne of Green Gables”
“I don’t care what situation a person’s in, he has to pay back what he owes someone else. You’ve got to be faithful to your obligations.”
- Mori Ōgai, “The Wild Geese”
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