Zitate von Dazai Osamu

No Longer Human

Quelle: Gezeichnet. Übersetzt von Jürgen Stalph. Frankfurt, Insel Verlag 1997, ISBN 3-4581-6871-0, S.11 (人間失格, Ningen shikkaku)

‘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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The Third Notebook: Part One
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The Third Notebook: Part Two
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The Second Notebook
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The Third Notebook: Part Two
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The Third Notebook: Part One
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Final Setence
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The Third Notebook:Part Two
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The First Notebook
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The Third Notebook: Part Two
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The Second Notebook
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The First Notebook
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Third Notebook: Part Two
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