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Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?

Banana Yoshimoto

If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.
BANANA YOSHIMOTO

Lying Needs Thinking
Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.
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Disappear Failing Someday
When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely. Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.
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Dark Light Lonely
It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.
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Miracle Natural World
The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free.
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Beautiful Heart Sky
That’s the advantage of insomnia. People who go to be early always complain that the night is too short, but for those of us who stay up all night, it can feel as long as a lifetime. You get a lot done
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Good Insomnia Long Night
The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.
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Body Daily Life Ritual
It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.
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Felt Gorgeous Sadness
Inching one’s way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can’t take any more, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that
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Dark Heart relief Sigh
Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
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Adults Mean Ugly
I spent most of my time thinking, because I didn’t have enough energy to do anything else.
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Culture Energy Thinking
The night glittered brilliantly then.
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Brilliant Glitter Night
I never tell my boyfriend that I’m busy when I’m not. No matter how effective they are, cheap techniques like that just don’t agree with me. So it’s always okay, it’s always all right. In my opinion the surest way to hook a man is to be as open with him as possible.
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Boyfriend Men Technique
Me, when I’m utterly exhausted by it all, when my skin breaks out, on those lonely evenings when I call my friends again and again and nobody’s home, then I despise my own life – my birth, my upbringing, everything.
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Home Lonely Skins
Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated.
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Defeated Feet Suffering
Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person’s mind.
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Enough Mind Tea

Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?

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