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Waterfall in autumn forest | Erawan waterfall National Park, Thailand

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“I was a hopeless case, incapable of fitting in. Never mind me, I thought bitterly to myself, I’m just weird.”

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Dazai Osamu, “A Little Beauty” from Self Portraits

#dazai osamu

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“I can forgive the evil in a human being, but I cannot pardon the foolishness in him. Stupidity is the greatest sin.”

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Dazai Osamu, “A New Hamlet”

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“People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a “social outcast” from the moment I was born. If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness.”

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Dazai Osamu, No Longer Human pg. 67

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“I’m beginning a diary of my own. Someone like me, someone who doesn’t open [their] heart to others, needs to talk to [myself] at least.”

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Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, The Key

#i need classic Japanese authors to stop coming for my life like this #where is this deep profound shit in american lit

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“Something pains me so much now that I would probably be very happy if I were crazy.”

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Dazai Osamu, “A New Hamlet”

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Mt. View by KyonKyonJin

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The Twins by Daniel Greenwood

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“Life is an awful ordeal. So many chains to bind you. Try to move an inch and the blood comes spurting out.”

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Dazai Osamu, “Cherries” from Self Portraits

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Hawta Mahmood

#art #cowboy

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How I Go to the Woods, Mary Oliver

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“A Tearful Farewell” by Maynard Dixon (1875-1946), watercolor on paper | via the Lucas Museum

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when the insurgents manage to penetrate parliaments, presidential palaces, and other headquarters of institutions, as in Ukraine, in Libya or in Wisconsin, it’s only to discover empty places, that is, empty of power, and furnished without any taste. It’s not to prevent the “people” from “taking power” that they are so fiercely kept from invading such places, but to prevent them from realizing that power no longer resides in the institutions.

To Our Friends

#politics

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at the risk of being cringe with everything going on — this week, the last six months, the past five years — i keep thinking about that one quote from the great gatsby

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“If I know from the start that I’m going to be alone, I’m not lonely. It doesn’t bother me.”

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Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, Naomi

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“I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

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“Why can’t people get along without criticizing one another? Each individual has his own way of living. Can we not learn to respect one another’s chosen way? One makes every effort to live in a dignified and proper manner, without harming anyone else, yet people will carp and cavil and try to tear one down. It’s most vexing.”

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Dazai Osamu, “Urashima-san” from Otogizoshi