"No Longer Human" by Osamu Dazai
○ My first book for this year... I don't actually like to count the order of books I have read, but the first one seems a bit special.
• "No Longer Human" is a raw and honest look at feeling out of place in the world. I was drawn to the main character's – Yozo Oba – struggles, which felt strangely relatable. The book taught me the importance of facing uncomfortable truths about ourselves, even when it’s hard.
• I have fond of poems over this past 2 years, and couldn't miss the one in this book which was referenced to Persian mathematician Omar Khayyam:
Look at the vast, endless sky,
We're just a tiny speck floating within it.
Who can understand why this Earth spins?
Rotation, revolution, it's all arbitrary.
I sense supreme power everywhere,
In every nation, in every people,
I discover the same humanity.
Am I a heretic for this?
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