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“God, I ask you, is non-resistance a sin?”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

tags: mental-health, questioning, questioning-life, religion, self-realization, sin

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“Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.
Everything passes.
That is the one and only thing 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.”
― dazai osamu, No Longer Human

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“Pero eso es precisamente lo que no entiendo: si mis vecinos logran sobrevivir sin matarse a sí mismos, sin volverse locos, manteniendo un interés en los partidos políticos, sin ceder a la desesperación, persiguiendo resueltamente la lucha por la existencia, ¿sus penas pueden ser realmente genuinas?”
― Osamu Dazai, Indigno de ser humano

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“I wonder if I have actually been happy. People have told me, really more times than I can remember, ever since I was a small boy, how lucky I was, but I have always felt as if I were suffering in hell. It has seemed to me in fact that those who called me lucky were incomparably more fortunate than I”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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“The agonies I have suffered night after night have made for a hell composed of an infinite diversity of tortures, but—though this is a very strange way to put it— the wound has gradually become dearer to me than my own flesh and blood, and I have thought its pain to be the emotion of the wound as it lived or even its murmur of affection.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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