"As long as I can make them laugh, it doesnâ€™t matter how, Iâ€™ll be alright. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably wonâ€™t mind it too much if I remain outside their lives. The one thing I must avoid is becoming offensive in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky."

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Source : Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.13, New Directions Publishing

Osamu Dazai

#Eye Quotes #Wind Quotes #Sky Quotes

“The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven for both man and animal, for both thick and strong, germinated the wheat, swelled the furrows with fecund mud and brought forth the buds in the orchards. And it is I who empowered these moist espousals, I the great Aphrodite ....”
“People always complain, 'you never invited me to your wedding', but I prefer casual weddings.”
“Every child has a legitimate narcissistic need to be noticed, understood, taken seriously, and respected by his mother. In the first weeks and months of life he needs to have the mother at his disposal, must be able to use her and to be mirrored by her.”
“If you're gonna judge people by crimes, you get into a quagmire. If you're gonna judge people by themselves, by who and what they are, that's a different ballgame.”
“Nights, sweet as they, Made short by lovers play, Yet long by the absence of the day.”

Source : Richard Crashaw (2013). “Selected Poems”, p.48, Carcanet
“He's earned all his money himself, with his fists. He didn't steal it like the rest of our politicians. And he'll be less tempted to steal if he gets in the chair.”
“Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.”
“The brain is the man; its health is essential for normal living; its disorders are surely the most profound of human miseries; and its destruction annihilates a person humanly, however intact his body.”

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