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“Sociedade. Senti como se estivesse começando a adquirir uma vaga noção do que isso significava. É uma luta entre um indivíduo e outro, uma luta de lá para cá, na qual o triunfo imediato é tudo”

— Osamu Dazai

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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.

‘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

Última atualização 3 de Março de 2023. História

Tópicos

imediato , triunfo , luta , noção , sociedade , vagão , indivíduo , outro

Osamu Dazai 8

1909–1948

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