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Osamu Dazai was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th-century Japan. A number of his most popular works, such as The Setting Sun and No Longer Human , are considered modern-day classics in Japan. With a semi-autobiographical style and transparency into his personal life, Dazai’s stories have intrigued the minds of many readers. His books also bring about awareness to a number of important topics such as human nature, mental illness, social relationships, and postwar Japan.

One such literary work, No Longer Human, has received quite a few adaptations: a film directed by Genjiro Arato, the first four episodes of the anime series Aoi Bungaku, and a manga serialized in Shinchosha's Comic Bunch magazine. While Dazai continues to be widely celebrated in Japan, he remains relatively unknown elsewhere with only a handful of his novels available in English.

✵ 19. jún 1909 – 13. jún 1948   •   Ďalšie mená Дадзай Осаму, اوسامو دازای, אוסאמו דאזאי
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Osamu Dazai: Citáty v angličtine

“I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times over again.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha The Setting Sun

Zdroj: The Setting Sun

“Living itself is the source of sin.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha No Longer Human

Zdroj: No Longer Human

“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.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha No Longer Human

The Third Notebook:Part Two
No Longer Human

“Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness. Everything passes. That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell. Everything passes.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha No Longer Human

The Third Notebook: Part Two
Zdroj: No Longer Human

“He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha No Longer Human

Third Notebook: Part Two
Zdroj: 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.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha No Longer Human

The First Notebook
No Longer Human

“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.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha No Longer Human

Zdroj: No Longer Human

“My unhappiness was the unhappiness of a person who could not say no. I had been intimidated by the fear that if I declined something offered me, a yawning crevice would open between the other person's heart and myself which could never be mended through all eternity.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha No Longer Human

The Third Notebook: Part Two
No Longer Human

“In my case such an expression as 'to be fallen for' or even 'to be loved' is not in the least appropriate; perhaps it describes the situation more accurately to say that I was 'looked after.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha No Longer Human

Zdroj: No Longer Human

“This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha The Setting Sun

Zdroj: The Setting Sun

“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.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha No Longer Human

Third Notebook: Part One
Zdroj: No Longer Human

“I want to spend my time with people who don't look to be respected. But such good people won't want to spend their time with me.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha The Setting Sun

Zdroj: The Setting Sun

“After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha No Longer Human

Zdroj: No Longer Human

“Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the world is composed entirely of unhappy people. But those people can fight their unhappiness with society fairly and squarly, and society for its part easily understands and sympathizes with such struggles. My unhappiness stemmed entirely from my own vices, and I had no way of fighting anybody.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha No Longer Human

The Third Notebook: Part Two
No Longer Human

“The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha No Longer Human

Zdroj: No Longer Human

“Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha No Longer Human

Zdroj: No Longer Human

“I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha The Setting Sun

Zdroj: The Setting Sun

“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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Osamu Dazai kniha No Longer Human

The Second Notebook
No Longer Human

“Is it painful to be the person who waits? Or is it more painful to be the person who makes others wait? Either way, there's no need to wait anymore. That's what is most painful." - Osamu Dazai”

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Osamu Dazai

Zdroj: Run, Melos! and Other Stories

“Last year nothing happened
The year before nothing happened
And the year before that nothing
happened.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha The Setting Sun

Zdroj: The Setting Sun

“I was frightened even by God. I could not believe in his love, only his punishment. Faith. That, I felt, was the act of facing the tribunal of justice with one's head bowed to receive the scourge of God. I could believe in hell, but it was impossible for me to believe in the existence of heaven.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha No Longer Human

The Third Notebook: Part One
No Longer Human

“Society. I felt as though even I were beginning at last to acquire some vague notion of what it meant. It is a struggle between one individual to another, a then-and-there struggle, in which the immediately triumph is everything.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha No Longer Human

‘Human beings never submit to human beings.’ Even slaves practice their mean retaliations. Human beings cannot conceive of any mean retaliations. Human beings cannot conceive of any means of survival except of a single then-and-there contest. They speak of duty to one’s country and such like things, but the object of their effort is invariably the individual, and, even once the individual’s needs have been met, again the individual comes in. The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual. The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This is how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror of the illusion of the ocean called the world. I learned to behave rather aggressively, without the endless anxious worrying I knew before, responding as it were to the needs of the moment.
Third Notebook: Part One
No Longer Human

“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.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha No Longer Human

Zdroj: No Longer Human

“For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha No Longer Human

Zdroj: No Longer Human

“The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could be settled by a simple then-and-there decision.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha No Longer Human

Zdroj: No Longer Human

“I also have the impression that many women have been able, instinctively, to sniff out this loneliness of mine, which I confided to no one, and this in later years was to become one of the causes of my being taken advantage of.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha No Longer Human

Zdroj: No Longer Human

“Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for morality which human beings arbitrarily devise.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha No Longer Human

Third Notebook: Part Two
No Longer Human

“I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak and act like a human being, I kept my solitary agonies locked in my breast. I kept my melancholy and my agitation hidden, careful lest any trace should be left exposed. I feigned an innocent optimism; I gradually perfected myself in the role of the farcical eccentric.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha No Longer Human

The First Notebook
No Longer Human

“Without a flicker of hesitatoin I inejected the morphine into my arm. My insecurity, frefulness and timidity were swept away completely; I turned into an expansively optimistic and fluent talker. The injection mademe forget how weak my body was, and I applied myself energetically to my cartoon.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha No Longer Human

The Third Notebook: Part Two
No Longer Human