Osamu Dazai's most famous lines (with sources)
The top 3 according to 7 votes from people: Mount Fuji goes well with evening primroses. · Faithfulness was not, after all, an empty delusion. · With your mouth you can say anything, however pure.. (Updated May 6, 2023.)
"Mine has been a life of much shame", "Mount Fuji goes well with evening primroses" and "Melos was enraged": the most quoted lines from Osamu Dazai's works, including No Longer Human, Run, Melos! and Schoolgirl, with their sources.
Automatically translated (original in 日本語). See the original
Top 13
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Mount Fuji goes well with evening primroses.
One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (1939).
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Faithfulness was not, after all, an empty delusion.
Run, Melos! (1940).
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With your mouth you can say anything, however pure.
Run, Melos! (1940).
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I would like to think that parents matter more than children.
Cherries (1948).
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Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness. Everything simply passes.
No Longer Human (1948).
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Do not despair. Well then, farewell.
Tsugaru (1944).
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Mine has been a life of much shame.
No Longer Human (1948).
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Melos was enraged.
Run, Melos! (1940).
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Cowards are afraid even of happiness. They can be hurt by cotton. They can be wounded even by happiness.
No Longer Human (1948).
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Tomorrow the same day will come again. Happiness will never come. And yet it is best to go to sleep believing it will come, that tomorrow it will.
Schoolgirl (1939).
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I like taking off my glasses and looking into the distance. Everything blurs, like a dream, like a peep show: wonderful.
Schoolgirl (1939).
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Deciding you are no good before you have even tried anything — that is laziness.
Owl Correspondence.
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Speak of ordinary things in an ordinary way.
The Thinking Reed.
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