“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
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“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
“It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.”
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“Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”
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“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
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“We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.”
“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”
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Dazai Osamu, pseudonym of Tsushima Shūji
(June 19, 1909 - June 13, 1948)
Tsushima's success in writing was brought to a halt when his idol, the writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, committed suicide in 1927 at 35 years old. Tsushima started to neglect his studies, and spent the majority of his allowance on clothes, alcohol, and prostitutes. He also dabbled with Marxism, which at the time was heavily suppressed by the government. On the night of December 10, 1929, Tsushima committed his first suicide attempt, but survived and was able to graduate the following year. In 1930, Tsushima enrolled in the French Literature Department of Tokyo Imperial University and promptly stopped studying again. In October, he ran away with a geisha named Hatsuyo Oyama and was formally disowned by his family.
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(June 19, 1909 - June 13, 1948)
Tsushima's success in writing was brought to a halt when his idol, the writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, committed suicide in 1927 at 35 years old. Tsushima started to neglect his studies, and spent the majority of his allowance on clothes, alcohol, and prostitutes. He also dabbled with Marxism, which at the time was heavily suppressed by the government. On the night of December 10, 1929, Tsushima committed his first suicide attempt, but survived and was able to graduate the following year. In 1930, Tsushima enrolled in the French Literature Department of Tokyo Imperial University and promptly stopped studying again. In October, he ran away with a geisha named Hatsuyo Oyama and was formally disowned by his family.
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“Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.
Everything passes.
That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.
Everything passes.”
— No Longer Human
Everything passes.
That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.
Everything passes.”
— No Longer Human
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“The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness”
— No Longer Human
— No Longer Human
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“Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer "Nothing." The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference, that nothing was going to make me happy.”
— No Longer Human
— No Longer Human
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“For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.”
— No Longer Human
— No Longer Human
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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.”
— No Longer Human
— No Longer Human
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