Frases de Osamu Dazai
Osamu Dazai
Data de nascimento: 19. Junho 1909
Data de falecimento: 13. Junho 1948
Outros nomes: אוסאמו דאזאי, اوسامو دازای, Дадзай Осаму
Osamu Dazai foi um autor japonês considerado um dos maiores escritores da literatura japonesa do século XX. Ele é conhecido por seu estilo de escrever tipicamente irônico e pessimista, e por ser um expoente na literatura do estilo Watakushi shosetsu, que se trata de um romance escrito na primeira pessoa do singular, incorporando elementos autobiográficos. Osamu Dazai também ficou conhecido por sua obsessão com o suicídio, traço marcante em seus livros e também em sua vida, visto que ele tentou o suicídio por diversas vezes.
Também conhecido por ser alcoólatra, Dazai suicidou-se junto de sua última mulher, Tomie Yamazaki, afogando-se no canal Tamagawa, em um local que ficava próximo de sua casa. Seus corpos não foram descobertos até o dia 19 de junho, o que coincidiu com o seu aniversário de 39 anos. Sua sepultura está no templo Zenrin-ji, em Mitaka, Tokyo. Dentre suas obras, a mais popular é o romance autobiográfico chamado Ningen Shikkaku, que pode ser traduzida como "Não humano" ou "Desqualificado para ser humano", lançada em 1948, e traduzida para diversos idiomas em todo o mundo. Foi traduzida por Ricardo Machado e publicada pela editora Estação Liberdade no Brasil em fevereiro de 2015, com o título "Declínio de um homem".
Sua última obra escrita em vida se chamaria Adeus, mas não foi concluída em decorrência do seu suicídio.
Citações Osamu Dazai
„I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times over again.“
— Osamu Dazai, livro The Setting Sun
Fonte: The Setting Sun
„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 I talk about, how should I say it? - I don't know.“
— Osamu Dazai, livro No Longer Human
Fonte: No Longer Human
„I want to spend my time with people who don't look to be respected. But such good people won't want to spend their time with me.“
— Osamu Dazai, livro The Setting Sun
Fonte: The Setting Sun
„I thought, “I want to die. I want to die more than ever before. There’s no chance now of a recovery. No matter what sort of thing I do, no matter what I do, it’s sure to be a failure, just a final coating applied to my shame. That dream of going on bicycles to see a waterfall framed in summer leaves—it was not for the likes of me. All that can happen now is that one foul, humiliating sin will be piled on another, and my sufferings will become only the more acute. I want to die. I must die. Living itself is the source of sin.“
— Osamu Dazai, livro No Longer Human
The Third Notebook:Part Two
No Longer Human
„Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the world is composed entirely of unhappy people. But those people can fight their unhappiness with society fairly and squarly, and society for its part easily understands and sympathizes with such struggles. My unhappiness stemmed entirely from my own vices, and I had no way of fighting anybody.“
— Osamu Dazai, livro No Longer Human
The Third Notebook: Part Two
No Longer Human
„My unhappiness was the unhappiness of a person who could not say no. I had been intimidated by the fear that if I declined something offered me, a yawning crevice would open between the other person's heart and myself which could never be mended through all eternity.“
— Osamu Dazai, livro No Longer Human
The Third Notebook: Part Two
No Longer Human
„This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.“
— Osamu Dazai, livro The Setting Sun
Fonte: The Setting Sun
„Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness. Everything passes. That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell. Everything passes.“
— Osamu Dazai, livro No Longer Human
The Third Notebook: Part Two
Fonte: No Longer Human
„People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a “social outcast” from the moment I was born. If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness.“
— Osamu Dazai, livro No Longer Human
The Second Notebook
No Longer Human
„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.“
— Osamu Dazai, livro No Longer Human
Fonte: No Longer Human
„Society. I felt as though even I were beginning at last to acquire some vague notion of what it meant. It is a struggle between one individual to another, a then-and-there struggle, in which the immediately triumph is everything.“
— Osamu Dazai, livro No Longer Human
‘Human beings never submit to human beings.’ Even slaves practice their mean retaliations. Human beings cannot conceive of any mean retaliations. Human beings cannot conceive of any means of survival except of a single then-and-there contest. They speak of duty to one’s country and such like things, but the object of their effort is invariably the individual, and, even once the individual’s needs have been met, again the individual comes in. The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual. The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This is how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror of the illusion of the ocean called the world. I learned to behave rather aggressively, without the endless anxious worrying I knew before, responding as it were to the needs of the moment.
Third Notebook: Part One
No Longer Human
„I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.“
— Osamu Dazai, livro No Longer Human
Fonte: No Longer Human
„The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness.“
— Osamu Dazai, livro No Longer Human
Fonte: No Longer Human
„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, livro No Longer Human
Third Notebook: Part One
Fonte: No Longer Human
„Last year nothing happened
The year before nothing happened
And the year before that nothing
happened.“
— Osamu Dazai, livro The Setting Sun
Fonte: The Setting Sun
