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161 " Something hard about her gives you the impression less of a beautiful woman than of a handsome young man. "
― Osamu Dazai , No Longer Human
162 " The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual. The ocean is not society; it is individual. "
163 " Ah, die Menschen, sie halten sich, obwohl sie sich nicht verstehen, obwohl sie ein völlig falsches Bild voneinander haben, ihr Leben lang für Busenfreunde und rezitieren, ohne je etwas bemerkt zu haben, einander noch am Grabe tränenreiche Abschiedsworte. "
164 " Tutto passa.Questa è la sola e unica cosa che a parer mio s’avvicini alla verità, nella società degli esseri umani, dove ho dimorato sin oggi come in un inferno rovente.Tutto passa. "
165 " Por lo general, las personas no muestran lo terribles que son. Pero son comouna vaca pastando tranquila que, de repente, levanta la cola y descarga unlatigazo sobre el tábano. Basta que se dé la ocasión para que muestren suhorrenda naturaleza. Recuerdo que se me llegaba a erizar el cabello de terror alpensar en que este carácter innato es una condición esencial para que el serhumano sobreviva. Al pensarlo, perdía cualquier esperanza sobre la humanidad. "
166 " I shall become nothing, the wind, the sky. "
167 " On the other hand, I was equally afraid that they might not recognize my true self when they saw it, but imagine that it was just some new twist to my clowning-occasion for additional snickers. "
168 " I have not the remotest clue what the nature or extent of my neighbor’s woes can be. "
169 " Long personal experience had taught me that when a woman suddenly bursts into hysterics, the way to restore her spirits is to give her something sweet. "
170 " Por lo general, las personas no muestran lo terribles que son. Pero son como una vaca pastando tranquila que, de repente, levanta la cola y descarga un latigazo sobre el tábano. Basta que se dé la ocasión para que muestren su horrenda naturaleza. Recuerdo que se me llegaba a erizar el cabello de terror al pensar en que este carácter innato es una condición esencial para que el ser humano sobreviva. Al pensarlo, perdía cualquier esperanza sobre la humanidad. "
171 " If things went well I would like to become his inseparable friend; but if this proved utterly impossible, I had no choice but to pray for his death. "
172 " It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it?—I don’t know. "
173 " I feared people the more I was liked, and the more I was liked the more I feared them—a process which eventually compelled me to run away from everybody. "
174 " As pessoas trabalham para ganhar seu pão, pois se não comem, morrem.” Para mim, não havia frase mais obscura, difícil de entender e, ao mesmo tempo, que soasse mais ameaçadora do que essa. "
175 " She must be unhappy too. Unhappy people are sensitive to the unhappiness of others. "
176 " I find it difficult to understand the kind of human being who lives, or who is sure he can live, purely, happily, serenely while engaging in deceit. Human beings never did teach me that abstruse secret. "
177 " I managed to maintain on the surface a smile which never deserted my lips; this was the accommodation I offered to others, a most precarious achievement performed by me only at the cost of excruciating efforts within. "
178 " I see in the face of the human being raging at me a wild animal in its true colors, one more horrible than any lion, crocodile or dragon. "
179 " Así es cómo se me ocurrieron las bufonadas. Era mi última posibilidad de ganarme el afecto de las personas. "
180 " Even supposing I could deceive most human beings into respecting me, one of them would know the truth, and sooner or later other human beings would learn from him. "