「ただ、一切(いっさい)は過ぎて(すぎて)行きます(いきます)。」という切なく(せつなく)静かな(しずかな)虚無(きょむ)の言葉

Yozo, now a drug addict, was eventually admitted to a mental hospital in Tokyo, falling to the very bottom of despair: 'I am now no longer qualified to be a human' (Ningen Shikkaku). Afterwards, he lived a retired life in a quiet house in the countryside, giving up everything and just watching the flow of time. It draws to a close with the extremely painful yet beautiful words of void: 'Just, everything passes.' An immortal monument of literature portraying human weakness and loneliness to the limit.