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We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Love isn’t about when you first meet. It’s about the many, many years you spend together, when you’re trying to keep that flame burning.
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Burn Flame Love Relationship Togetherness Yourself
I want my words to survive translation.
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Myself Survive Translation Word
Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.
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Break Heart Moments Myself
What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.
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Beautiful Calm Wisdom
You have to accept that sometimes that’s how things happen in this world. People’s opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.
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Acceptance Growth People Process World
After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?
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Blame Forever Live Ourselves Quite
As with a wound on one’s own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things.
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Body Development Disturb Intimacy Possible Wound
I have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might have had, but I’m having this one.
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Feeling Life Myself Person
Typically in my novels the narrator tells a story by remembering, and the memories are colored by this and colored by that. So the whole universe of the novel tends to be framed by the narrator’s memories and thoughts.
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Frame Memories Myself Novel Remember Thinking Universe
There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life.
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Life Mistake Oneself Satisfaction
When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.
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Children Management Parents Person Teacher Yourself
To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature.
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Best Myself Proper See
I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.
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Creation Interest Myself Novel World
I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.
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Alive Discover Imagination Myself World
An artist’s concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.
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Artist Beautiful Himself
Even at the time, I realised this couldn’t be right, that this interpretation didn’t fit with the rest of the lyrics. But that wasn’t an issue with me. The song was about what I said, and I used to listen to it again and again, on my own, whenever I got the chance.
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Chance Issues Lyrics Myself Right Time

We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.

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We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.

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