

“Truly human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.”
― Rashomon and Other Stories
― Rashomon and Other Stories

“He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human

“Yet what a wretched creature I am, not to be able to depend upon myself!”
― Mandarins: Stories
― Mandarins: Stories

“I could believe in hell, but it was impossible for me to believe in the existence of heaven.”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human

“As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn’t matter how, I’ll be alright. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won’t mind it too much if I remain outside their lives. The one thing I must avoid is becoming offensive in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human
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