Lil e

“I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.”
― Osamu Dazai, 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.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“Oh, if I were doing nothing only out of laziness. Lord, how I'd respect myself then.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

“….while human nature acts as an entire whole, with everything that is in it, consciously and unconsciously, and though it lies, still it lives.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground