In life, there are people who are constantly in the spotlight and those who prefer to stay in the shadows. Dazai Osamu is one of the most interesting and complex figures in Japanese history. He was a renowned author and poet, but also struggled with many personal demons. This blog post will explore the fascinating life of Dazai Osamu and his work as an artist.
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This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution. — Osamu Dazai
As for love . . . no, having once written that word I can write nothing more. — Osamu Dazai
Logic, inevitably, is the love of logic. It is not the love for living human beings. — Osamu Dazai
What uneasiness lies in being loved. — Osamu Dazai
I have always found the female of the human species many times more difficult to understand than the male. — Osamu Dazai
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. — Osamu Dazai
What did he mean by ‘society’? The plural of human beings? — Osamu Dazai
Disqualified as a human beings. I had now ceased utterly to be a human beings. — Osamu Dazai
Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised. — Osamu Dazai
The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could be settled by a simple then–and–there decision. — Osamu Dazai
But happiness is being able to hope, however faintly, for happiness. So, at least, we must believe if we are to live in the world of today. — Osamu Dazai
My eyes would swim in my head, and the whole world grow dark before me, so that I felt half out of my mind. — Osamu Dazai
After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it. — Osamu Dazai
What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world. — Osamu Dazai
From then on, however, I came to hold, almost as a philosophical conviction, the belief: What is society but an individual? — Osamu Dazai
It isn’t that I dislike artists, but I can’t stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character. — Osamu Dazai
The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness — Osamu Dazai
The weak fear happiness itself. — Osamu Dazai
To be a friend of the weak–that is the artist’s point of departure as well as his ultimate goal. — Osamu Dazai
Scoundrels […] simply don’t die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people. […] Scoundrels live a long time. The beautiful die young. — Osamu Dazai
I have often felt that I would find it more complicated, troublesome and unpleasant to ascertain the feelings by which a woman lives than to plumb the innermost thoughts of an earthworm. — Osamu Dazai
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