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“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

“It wasn't so much that I was afraid of the place itself, but I was afraid of the creatures who masqueraded as people.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Real World

“From the moment we are born, we begin to die.”
― Janne Teller, Nothing

“Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer "Nothing." The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference, that nothing was going to make me happy.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human