"Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, declaring (without offering the least help) that I should have gone on living my full complement of days, is assuredly a prodigy among men quite capable of tranquilly urging the Emperor to open a fruit shop."

-- Osamu Dazai

#Suicide Quotes #Men Quotes #Offering Quotes

“Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman.”
“I think it's really important for my daughter to see her parents being physically fit and for that to be a part of her life. The examples we set for her will stay with her the rest of her life.”
“Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license.”
“You can't change people but you can effect a change in them by your behavior.”
“Please do not put earthly expectations on a heavenly experience.”
“I am very attracted by bad taste-it is a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste which is nothing more than a standardized way of looking at things,”
“Because I work at other things, whenever I get a chance to write I feel grateful for it. But I learned that sometimes, I couldn't do anything else and I shouldn't plan to do anything that night or the next day. There were times when I was writing something difficult for days or weeks and when I'd finish, I would get up and go out of my shed into the garden and be sick. I had terrible migraines.”

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“Perception of a state is not the state.”

Source : M. John Harrison (2012). “Nova Swing”, p.136, Hachette UK

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