The Flowers of Buffoonery by Osamu Dazai Self-Help civilizations defined their own concepts

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idealistic teenager living amid the political upheaval of 1953 Tehran

is about why generosity trumps genius

You stop wondering what would happen if nothing works out because you know you possess what it takes to build from scratch all over again

When Sophie hears that they are flush-bunking off in England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers

The Flowers of Buffoonery by Osamu Dazai Self-Help civilizations defined their own conceptsThe Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Obathe narrator of No Longer Human at a younger ageis being kept after a failed suicide attempt. While he convalesces, his friends and family visit him, and other patients and nurses drift in and out of his room. Against this dispiriting backdrop, everyone tries to maintain a lighthearted, even clownish atmosphere: playing cards, smoking cigarettes, vying for attention, cracking jokes,