“...the manner of speech of everybody in the world — held strange, elusive complexities, intricately presented with overtones of vagueness: I have always been baffled by these precautions so strict as to be useless, and by the intensely irritating little maneuvers surrounding them. In the end I have felt past caring; I have laughed them away with my clowning, or surrendered to them abjectly with a silent nod of the head, in the attitude of defeat.” PhilosophyFearPsychologySocietyHuman RelationshipsJapanese LiteratureSocial Anxiety Book:No Longer Human Source: No Longer Human
“I have to admit I envy people who never doubt themselves and spend their whole lives among others who are equally meek and gentle and warm. As far as hardship goes, if you can get through your life without experiencing it, so much the better; there's no need to go out of your way to seek hardship” Book QuotesJapanese LiteratureLiterature QuotesDazai Osamu Book:No One Knows Source: No One Knows