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61 " [...] I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of the usherettes standing along the sides of the red-carpeted staircase at the main entrance; I was afraid to go into a restaurant because I was intimidated by the waiters furtively hovering behind me waiting for my plate to be emptied. "
― Osamu Dazai , No Longer Human
62 " Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it. "
63 " Tahun lalu tak terjadi apa-apaTahun sebelumnya pun tak terjadi apa-apaDan tahun sebelum tahun sebelumnya juga tak terjadi apa-apa. "
― Osamu Dazai , The Setting Sun
64 " I'm Cinderella without her prince. Do you know where to find me in Tokyo? You won't see me again. "
― Osamu Dazai , Schoolgirl
65 " What superficiality - and what stupidity - there is in trying to depict in a pretty manner things which one has thought pretty. "
― Osamu Dazai
66 " He would show up not with women but with two or three newspaper or magazine reporters. According to some of these fellows, now that the military had fallen, the impoverished poets and artists were going to be the new public heroes. "
― Osamu Dazai , ヴィヨンの妻 [Viyon No Tsuma]
67 " Bagaimanapun kau bisa meyakini satu hal: seorang lelaki musti berpura-pura demi meneruskan hidup. "
68 " Comprender los sentimientos de cualquier mujer es más complicado y desagradable que estudiar las emociones de una lombriz. Según mi experiencia, que viene de cuando era niño, cuando una mujer se pone a llorar de repente, lo mejor es ofrecerle algún dulce y enseguida mejora su humor. "
69 " It is only too obvious that favoritism inevitably exists: it would have been useless to complain to human beings. So I said nothing of the truth. "
70 " Jusque-là dans ma vie, le désir d'être tué m'était venu plus d'une fois, mais l'idée de tuer quelqu'un ne m'avait pas effleuré ; lorsque je me trouvais devant un adversaire terrible je ne pensais, au contraire, qu'à le rendre heureux. "
71 " When I looked up 'rococo' in the dictionary a while back it was defined as 'an ornamental style emphasizing the florid and the gorgeous, but lacking substance', and I couldn't help but laugh. It was so perfect. How could anything beautiful have 'substance' anyway? Pure beauty is always without meaning or morality. "
72 " To fall for," "to be fallen for"--I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent. Once these expressions put in an appearance, no matter how solemn the place, the silent cathedrals of melancholy crumble, leaving nothing but an impression of fatuousness. It is curious, but the cathedrals of melancholy are not necessarily demolished if one can replace the vulgar "What a messy business it is to be fallen for" by the more literary "What uneasiness lies in being loved. "
73 " I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive--those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood. "
74 " When I lay next to her my body was enveloped in her current, which mingled with my own harsher current of gloom like a “ withered leaf settling to rest on the stones at the bottom of a pool.” I had freed myself from fear and uneasiness. "
75 " Why is physical love bad and spiritual love good? I don't understand. I can't help feeling that they are the same. I would like to boast that I am she who could destroy her body and soul in Gehenna for the sake of a love, for the sake of a passion she could not understand, or for the sake of the sorrow they engendered. "
76 " That was a really rare event. I don't think It's an exaggeration to say that It was the one and only time in my life that I refused something offered to me. My unhappiness was the happiness of a person who could not say no. I had been intimidated by the fear that if I declined something offered me, a yawning crevice would open between the other person's heart and myself which could never be mended through all eternity "
77 " Existe la palabra «marginados», que denota a los infelices, a los fracasados y a los descarriados en la sociedad humana; pero yo creo que lo soy desde el momento en que nací. Por eso, cuando me cruzo con alguien calificado de «marginado», de inmediato siento afecto por él. Un afecto que llena todo mi cuerpo de un arrobamiento de ternura. "
78 " Mustahil bagi seorang manusia—tidak, seorang lelaki—untuk terus hidup tanpa merenung "Aku ini salah satu orang pilihan", "Aku ini punya kelebihan", dan lain-lain. "
79 " Incapace com'ero di nutrire un briciolo di fiducia nella mia facoltà di parlare e d'agire come un essere umano, custodivo rinchiuse nel petto le mie angosce solitarie. Tenevo nascoste l'agitazione e la malinconia, preoccupandomi d'evitare che avesse a trapelarne qualche traccia. "
80 " Purchè ne sia capace, è probabile che gli esseri umani non badino troppo se rimango estraneo alle loro vite. L'unica cosa che debbo evitare, è di riuscir molesto ai loro occhi; sarò nulla, sarò vento, il cielo. "