"Truly, human life is as ephemeral as dew and as brief as lightning."

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SuicidesShort story writers from JapanPeople from TokyoSuicidal 20th-century Japanese male writers
Original Language: English

Sources

In a Grove (1922), quoted in A Study Guide for Ryunosuke Akutagawa's "In a Grove" (Gale, 2017).