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Osamu Dazai on Anniversary

1909–1948

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11 quotes

They say that love flies out the window when poverty comes in the door, but people generally get the sense backwards.

I'm told that some men heat their bath water by burning the love letters they get from women.

The true substance of love lies in the act of howling words of love with a desperation of a man jumping into the high seas.

I know that I am liked by other people, but I seem to be deficient in the faculty to love others.

"To fall for," "to be fallen for"—I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent.

Why is physical love bad and spiritual love good?

As for love . . . no, having once written that word I can write nothing more.

Logic, inevitably, is the love of logic. It is not the love for living human beings.

Women found in me a man who could keep a love secret.

Mama's love. When I thought of that I couldn't die.

Man was born for love and revolution.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Osamu Dazai (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.