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No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.

Banana Yoshimoto

People aren’t overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.
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Defeat Overcoming People
Here in this ocean, in the midst of all this water, with the red flags on those distant buoys flapping in the sea breeze, I find myself unable to treat our house in Tokyo as anything but a dream.
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Breeze Dream Ocean Sea
It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.
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Felt Gorgeous Sadness
Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).
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Bed Exist Nothing World
Over and over, we begin again.
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Bare Over Tree
Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
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Adults Mean Ugly
The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.
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Body Daily Life Ritual
Why is it that everything I eat when I’m with you is so delicious?’ I laughed. ‘Could it be that you’re satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?
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Hunger Laugh Lust
Every time I look into his eyes I just want to take the ice cream or whatever I’ve got in my hand and rub it into his face. That’s how much I like him.
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Eye Hand Ice Cream
Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends.
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Heart Light People
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
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
it’ll be this kind of deep blue”she said. “The kind of color that somehow sucks your eyes and your ears and all your words -the color of a completely closed-in night
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Blue Eye Night
I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it.
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Deep Breath Taken
This is what it means to be loved… when someone wants to touch you, to be tender.
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Mean Someone Tender Want
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

No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.

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