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In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one’s life history is etched in the senses.

Banana Yoshimoto

Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
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Adults Mean Ugly
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
Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.
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Disappear Failing Someday
The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.
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Body Daily Life Ritual
Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).
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Bed Exist Nothing World
When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.
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Bad Comfort Place Placeness Thing
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
As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won’t let my spirit be destroyed.
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Feet Rocks Suffering
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
The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it’s a kitchen, if it’s a place where they make food, it’s fine with me. Ideally it should be well broken in. Lots of tea towels, dry and immaculate. Where tile catching the light (ting! Ting!)” (p. 3).
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Broken Kitchen Light
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
The night glittered brilliantly then.
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Brilliant Glitter Night
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
On nights like this when the air is so clear, you end up saying things you ordinarily wouldn’t. Without even noticing what you’re doing, you open up your heart and just start talking to the person next to you-you talk as if you have no audience but the glittering stars, far overhead.
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Heart Night Stars
Over and over, we begin again.
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Bare Over Tree
When someone tells you something big, it’s like you’re taking money from them, and there’s no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening.
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Listening Responsibility Way

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