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People aren’t overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.

Banana Yoshimoto

No matter where you are, you’re always a bit on your own, always an outsider.
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Inspire Matter Travel
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
Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
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Adults Mean Ugly
It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.
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Miracle Natural World
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
The night glittered brilliantly then.
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Brilliant Glitter Night
If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.
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Lying Needs Thinking
The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.
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Body Daily Life Ritual
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
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
It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.
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Felt Gorgeous Sadness
Her eyes were those of someone who’s just fallen in love, someone who sees nothing but her lover, someone who has no fear of anything. The eyes of someone who believes that every dream will come true, that reality will move if you just give it a push.
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Believe Dream Fear
Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you’ll never make it to the top.
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Fate Mean Missing
Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).
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Bed Exist Nothing World
I held the feeling in my heart; the urge to discuss it died out. There was all the time in the world. In the endless repetition of other nights, other mornings, this moment, too, might become a dream.
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Dream Heart Morning
I was happy. I loved the night, I loved t so much it almost hurt. In the night everything seemed possible. I wasn’t sleepy at all.
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Hurt Night Sleepy

People aren’t overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.

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