osamu dazai

“ They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness. ”

“ A good book is always good, no matter how many times youve already read it. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Living itself is the source of sin. ”

“ Justice is a weapon. It can be used to cause harm, but it cannot protect or save others. ”

“ Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit. ”

“ Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. ”

“ I could believe in hell, but it was impossible for me to believe in the existence of heaven. ”

“ Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm. ”

“ The real things are apt to be deviant. ”