“I thought, “I want to die. I want to die more than ever before. There’s no chance now of a recovery. No matter what sort of thing I do, no matter what I do, it’s sure to be a failure, just a final coating applied to my shame. That dream of going on bicycles to see a waterfall framed in summer leaves—it was not for the likes of me. All that can happen now is that one foul, humiliating sin will be piled on another, and my sufferings will become only the more acute. I want to die. I must die. Living itself is the source of sin.”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
― 1984
― 1984
“All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest. It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it? - I don't know.”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― 1984
― 1984
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