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No matter where you are, you’re always a bit on your own, always an outsider.

Banana Yoshimoto

Love is the kind of thing that’s already happening by the time you notice it, that’s how it works, and no matter how old you get, that doesn’t change. Except that you can break it up into two entirely distinct types — love where there’s an end in sight and love where there isn’t.
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Happen Love Sight Two Work
Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.
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Disappear Failing Someday
I had been walking in silence for so long,I had almost forgotten what my own voice sounded like.My knees were tired;my toes were beginning to ache.
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Long Tired Voice
I wonder what it felt to move to a country where you didn’t grow up. I had thought about that often since my sister got married. Do you become a character in a story native to that land, or do you, somewhere in your heart, want to return to your homeland.
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Country Grow Up Moving
You know, Chihiro, darling- all it takes is one little wrong step and you end up feeling frustrated your whole life, like me.
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Feelings Frustrated Littles
In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions, much of one’s life history is etched in the senses. And things of no particular importance, or irreplaceable things, can suddenly resurface in a café one winter night.
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Emotion Flow Much Night Sense Winter
What was important wasn’t the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the sky at the same time.
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Important Sky Together
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
Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person’s mind.
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Enough Mind Tea
I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn’t up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness.
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Benefits Ratio World
The night glittered brilliantly then.
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Brilliant Glitter Night
It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.
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Miracle Natural World
I really believe that no matter how old people get, they tend to change in certain ways depending on how people treat them – they change their colors.
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Believe Color People
In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one’s life history is etched in the senses.
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Emotion Flow Sense Uncertain
Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.
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Back Happy Life Memories Shining
Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I mean by ‘their happiness’ is living a life untouched as much as possible by the knowledge that we are really, all of us, alone. That’s not a bad thing.
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Knows Mean Way

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