Osamu Dazai

This work depicts the decline of the Japanese nobility after World War II. It focuses on Kazuko and her brother Naoji, and their elderly mother. The story shows a family in decline and crisis, like many other families during this period of transition between traditional Japan and a more advanced, industrial society. Many families needed to leave their old lives behind and start anew. Through the character Naoji, the author brings up a number of social and philosophical problems of that time.

The Setting Sun

eleanthi 

It’s no use. I'm going. I cannot think of the slightest reason why I should have to go on living. Only those who wish to go on living should. Just as a man has the right to live, he ought also to have the right to die.

𓂃 𓈒𓏸

“As long as you love me, all I want is to spend my whole life by your side.”

sasha 

It now occurs to me that unless you answer [this letter] I shall have no grounds whatsoever even for presumption and shall probably be doomed to waste away the rest of my life alone. I am lost unless I hear from you.

how growing up feels like in one sentence. 

Tselmuun Munkhochir

During all this time Mother had not said a word of explanation but had waited these twenty years until I was able to appreciate the beauty of the color myself. 

"Mother, recently I have discovered the one way in which human beings difer completely from other animals. Man has, I know, language, knowledge, prin- ciples, and social order, but don't all the other animals have them too, granted the difference of degree? Per- haps the animals even have religions. Man boasts of being the lord of all creation, but it would seem as if essentially he does not differ in the least from other animals. 

how I feel in long distance relationship 

To wait. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions all together occupy a bare one per cent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine per cent is just living in waiting. I wait in momentary expectation, feeling as though my breasts are being crushed, for the sound in the corridor of the footsteps of happiness. Empty. Oh, life is too painful, the reality that confirms the universal belief that it is best not to be born. 

Thus every day, from morning to night, I wait in despair for something. I wish I could be glad that I was born, that I am alive, that there are people and a world.

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