"Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer 'Nothing.' The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference, that nothing was going to make me happy."
-Osamu Dazai, 'No Longer Human'.

 "The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could be settled by a simple then-and-there decision."
-Osamu Dazai.

"A true artist is an ugly man" 
-Osamu Dazai


"For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesn't begin at all."
- Haruki Murakami, 'Norwegian Wood'.

"The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time."
- Haruki Murakami, 'Sputnik Sweetheart'.

"It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart."
- Haruki Murakami, 'Kafka On The Shore'.