“People talk of “social outcasts.”
The words apparently denote the miserable
losers of the world, the vicious ones
but I feel as though I have been a “social outcast” from the moment I was born.
If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast,
I invariably feel affection for him,
an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness.”

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― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human