No Longer Human

by Osamu Dazai

I suppose one can say that women stuff themselves with far more pleasures than men.

“Thanks! I’m starved for a woman.”

the manner of speech of everybody in the world—held strange, elusive complexities, intricately presented with overtones of vagueness: I have always been baffled by these precautions so strict as to be useless, and by the intensely irritating little maneuvers surrounding them.

Unhappy people are sensitive to the unhappiness of others.”