“ He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost. Osamu Dazai
“ I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely verbal) incapacitates me. Peter Cameron
“ Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it. Osamu Dazai
“ And I was incapable of living all by myself in those lodgings where I didn't know a soul. It terrified me to sit by myself quietly in my room. I felt frightened, as if I might be set upon or struck by… Osamu Dazai
“ Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however slightly, and I am at once seized by a shivering violent enough to make me dizzy. Osamu Dazai
“ For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces. Osamu Dazai
“ All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest. It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should… Osamu Dazai
