Quotes from Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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.

I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which if borne by my neighbor would be enough to make a murderer out of him.

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.

Show me what you've written, " I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.

After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.

He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.