"Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised."

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Source : Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.145, New Directions Publishing

Osamu Dazai

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“Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.”
“There were times when there were parts that I was sure I got and then I didn't, and I did get upset. But at this point, it doesn't affect me in the least because I know how the business works.”
“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the President of the United States is authorized to present, on behalf of the Congress, a gold medal of appropriate design to the family of the late Honorable Leo J. Ryan in recognition of his distinguished service as a Member of Congress and the fact of his untimely death by assassination while performing his responsibilities as a Member of the United States House of Representatives.”

Source : "Act Awarding Leo Ryan Congressional Gold Medal". United States Congress, H.R. 3348 Public Law 98 - 159, November 18, 1983.
“Those who have achieved all their aims probably set them too low”

Source : "Die 7 Geheimnisse der Dirigenten-Legende". Bild.de, April 4, 2008.
“He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.”
“And I said couldn't we be more moderate? And he said why? And I said because I care about the team. And he said, 'No Jony, you're just really vain. You just want people to like you. I'm surprised at you, because I thought you really held the work up as the most important and not how you are perceived by people.' People misunderstand Steve because he was so focused.”
“My vigour, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.”
“A couple years ago, I felt like I was in a dead end, and I kept asking myself, "How do you get out of a dead end?" People would say the answer is, "You just turn around." But that was not the answer that I was going to accept. I realized, for me, that getting out of a dead end was literally the world turning upside down, and I had to fall out of the dead end. So you have to surrender, so I've really learned how to surrender, practice unconditional love. With my art, I've always put out things I love.”

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