♤ My head is a very messy place ◇

A good book is a good book, no matter how many times you read it ✨ ~ Bsd / #shymanga

[bsd-bibliophile]

Being educated does not mean knowing strange words or reading ancient and difficult literature or enjoying poetry and writing verse and other such accomplishments which are of no practical use in this world. These accomplishments do give much pleasure to the human mind, and they have their own values, but they are not to be esteemed and worshiped as much as the usual run of scholars have tried to make them out to be…. Therefore, this kind of learning without real use should be left for another day, and one’s best efforts should be given to an education that is relevant to everyday use.

Fukuzawa Yukichi, “Encouragement of Learning I” from Fukuzawa Yukichi on Education

[bsd-bibliophile]

Now in this world full of sadness, Don’t let your heart harden. For the sake of whatever intimacy we could have, Don’t let your heart harden.

Hardened, the heart is oblivious to the world, And words fall silent on the soul. Nurturing serenity, man returns to that dreaminess Known at the beginning, and can make sense of it all.

- Nakahara Chūya, “Untitled” from Poems of the Goat

[bsd-bibliophile]

There is joy in the darkness; there is sorrow in the light.

Kunikida Doppo, “My Sad Recollection of a Picture” from Selected Stories of Doppo Kunikida

[bsd-bibliophile]

The consciousness of complicated misery surrounds me. Tragedy immanent in things themselves operates and presses me into hopeless darkness…But I believe, after all, in the ultimate righteousness of things. Even if I found myself at the bottom of hell when I woke on some morning, this belief would not change. But even with this, it is still bitter for me to walk this life.

Nakajima Atsushi, Light, Wind, and Dreams

[bsd-bibliophile]

I was a flower petal about to fall. I trembled and quivered at the slightest breeze; at the slightest insult, I writhed about and considered dying.

Dazai Osamu, “Recollections” from The Saga of Dazai Osamu

[bsd-bibliophile]

All great and precious things are lonely.

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

[surqrised]

“Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.”

— Patricia Highsmith

[zinziee]

[thoughtkick]

“You were born with the ability to change someone’s life, don’t ever waste it.”

— Unknown

[bsd-bibliophile]

It is easy to find fault with and complain about all things in society, but it is very difficult to find remedies for these faults.

Fukuzawa Yukichi, “Methods of Bookkeeping” from Fukuzawa Yukichi on Education

[surqrised]

“The people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else … learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”

— Neil Gaiman

[thoughtkick]

“I just want someone who will love me. when I do not know how to love myself.”

— Beau Taplin, “Priorities”

[bsd-bibliophile]

‘There is no such thing as freedom on earth,’ he said. 'Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. You think you are free now because you’ve escaped from a peculiarly unbearable kind of bondage. But are you?… That’s all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.

Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Blue Castle

[clouds-and-frogs]

Home, a place where you feel safe.

Home, a warm and comfortable place.

Home, a place where all your wounds can be healed.

The Armed Detective Agency, a safe, warm and comfortable place in which Atsushi began to heal his wounds.

I really loved these parts. Rereading them moved me a lot. Atsushi, who believed he had nowhere to live, understood that perhaps there is a glimmer of light for him. Perhaps a safe and welcoming place to live exists for him too, despite the harsh words the director of the orphanage always told him.

I loved how the Agency never abandoned him. I think they thought "We have a lot of beefs with the mafia and the bounty is nothing we can't deal together."

Joining the ADA was certainly Atsushi's greatest salvation for a lot of reasons. The thing I like most is how Atsushi's gaze has become increasingly bright and determined, embarking on a path of personal growth, fighting many battles, against his past first, towards self love and self acceptance.

[clouds-and-frogs]

BSD rereading #1

One thing about BSD that I'm sure about is that Kunikada's schedules started shaking in fear in his agenda the exact moment Dazai entered Ada's office./j

While everyone is terrified about what is happening in the current story arc, I decided to reread the manga from the first volume, and man, I really loved the interactions between Dazai and Kunikida!!

They really make me laugh. I think that being together they could help each other a lot. Kunikida keeps an eye on Dazai and Dazai helps Kunikida to see life in a less rigid and methodical way. I love the fact that Dazai isn't only able to annoy Kunikida for fun, but he can help him taking things easily, accepting the fact that life isn't something you can plan in a very straight way but is something you live. He can also makes him aware that even if he can't always do things the way he wants, he is still doing a great job.

I love their interactions and in a recent future (I hope) I wanna read the first novel about Dazai entrance exame to understand more about them.

[bsd-bibliophile]

Again this morning      spells of rain A striking woman      eyes awash With iris hues      of deep marine Appears and then      begins to vanish

- Nakahara Chūya, “June Rain” from Poems of Days Past

[surqrised]

“Before you give up, think about why you held on for so long.”

— Unknown