„Ich habe ein schändliches Leben geführt. Was menschlich leben heißt, weiß ich nicht.“
— Dazai Osamu
in: Gezeichnet. Übersetzt von Jürgen Stalph. Frankfurt, Insel Verlag 1997, ISBN 3-4581-6871-0, S.11 (人間失格, Ningen shikkaku)
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Dazai Osamu
Geburtstag: 19. Juni 1909
Todesdatum: 13. Juni 1948
Andere Namen:אוסאמו דאזאי,اوسامو دازای,Дадзай Осаму
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Dazai Osamu war ein japanischer Schriftsteller.
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„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.“
— Osamu Dazai, 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“
— Osamu Dazai
Context: 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. ‘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
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„What did he mean by "society"? The plural of human beings?“
— Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
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„He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.“
— Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
Third Notebook: Part Two
