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Osamu Dazai on Women

1909–1948

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

I never could think of prostitutes as human beings or even as women. They seemed more like imbeciles or lunatics.

“Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk.”

I'm going somewhere where there aren't any women.

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

Women sleep so soundly they seem to be dead. Who knows? Women may live in order to sleep.

Long personal experience had taught me that when a woman suddenly bursts into hysterics, the way to restore her sprits is to give her something sweet.

A mere smile can determine a woman's fate. It is frightening. Fascinatingly so. I have to be careful.

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