No Longer Human
“If my neighbors managed to survive without killing themselves, without goung mad, maintaining an interest in political parties, not yielding to despair, resolutely pursuing the fight for existence, and their griefs really be genuine? Am I wrong in thinking that these people have become such complete egoists and are so convinced of the normalcy of life that they have never once doubted themselves?”
“All I feel are the results of retention and tear of the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest.”
“I felt convinced that your reprimand was without doubt voices of human truth speak to me from eternity’s past… This belief made me incapable of arguments of self justification were there anyone criticize me? I felt certain that I had been living under the most dreadful misapprehension.”
“One thing I must avoid is becoming a function in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.”
“In other words, I hadn’t the strength even to choose between two alternatives. In this fact, I believe they one of the characteristics which in later years was to develop into a major cause of my life of shame“
“I find it difficult to understand what kind of human being who lives, or who is sure she can live purely happily serene while engaged in deceit. Human beings that teach me that secret. If I had only known that one thing I never had… tasted such of hell every night.”
“ a plainly saw monsters in broad daylight, in the midst of nature… They did their best to detect these monsters as they appeared.”
“Though outside lay the sea of irrationality, it was far more agreeable to swim in its waters until presently I drowned.”
“…speech of everybody in the world-held strange, elusive complexities, irrationality presented with overtones of vagueness.”
“Oh, vouchsafe unto me they will of ice. Acquaint me with a true natures of human beings. Is it not a sin for a man to push aside his fellow? Vouch unto me a mask of anger.”
“The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual.”
“ society… Is just struggled between one individual and another, a then-and-there struggle, in which the immediate triumph is everything.”