No Longer Human

by Osamu Dazai

I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.”

Though outside lay the sea of irrationality, it was far more agreeable to swim in its waters until presently I drowned.

escaped, but it gave me no pleasure: I decided to kill myself.

What is society but an individual?

The “world,” after all, was still a place of bottomless horror.

God, I ask you. Is trustfulness a sin?