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The wound has gradually become dearer to me than my own flesh and blood, and I have thought its pain to be the emotion of the wound as it lived or even its murmur of affection
The wound has gradually become dearer to me than my own flesh and blood, and I have thought its pain to be the emotion of the wound as it lived or even its murmur of affection
Approximate author period: c. 1928 AD · modern
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- Osamu Dazai
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- Approximate author period: c. 1928 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Osamu Dazai: life dates 1909 to 1948. Wikidata Q317685, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q317685 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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