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It's not so much that I want to die as that I'm tired of living.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa The Life of a Stupid Man depression

It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories death suicide

Yes -- or rather, it's not so much that I want to die as that I'm tired of living.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories death suicide

... O-suzu left whatever work she was doing at her sewing machine and dragged Takeo back to O-yoshi and her son. How dare you behave so selfishly! Now tell O-yoshi-san that you are…

Ryunosuke Akutagawa Mandarins: Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagaw… culture humor japanese

Isn't there someone kind enough to come strangle me in my sleep?

Ryunosuke Akutagawa sleep

As you can imagine, those who had fallen this far had been so worn down by their tortures in the seven other hells that they no longer had the strength to cry out.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa The Spider's Thread hell japan japanese torture

Directly beneath the Lotus Pond of Paradise lay the lower depths of Hell, and as He peered through the crystalline waters, He could see the River of Three Crossings and the Mountai…

Ryunosuke Akutagawa The Spider's Thread hell japan japanese

Great robber though he was, Kandata could only trash about like a dying frog as he choked on the blood of the pond.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa The Spider's Thread hell japan japanese

I could have sworn that the man's eyes were no longer watching his daughter dying in agony, that instead the gorgeous colors of flames and the sight of a woman suffering in them we…

Ryunosuke Akutagawa Hell Screen fire japan japanese

The pale whiteness of her upturned face as she choked on the smoke; the tangled length of her hair as she tried to shake the flames from it; the beauty of her cherry-blossom robe a…

Ryunosuke Akutagawa Hell Screen fire japan japanese

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Unscramble RYUNOSUKE 9-letter words that start with R 9-letter words that end in E 9-letter words containing YU 9-letter words containing KE 9-letter words with R and Y

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The old plural of Eye.

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ENE

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AND STILL ___

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