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The night glittered brilliantly then.

Banana Yoshimoto

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
Things look different depending on your perspective. As I see it, fighting to bridge those gaps isn’t what really matters. The most important thing is to know them inside and out, as differences, and to understand why certain people are the way they are.
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Bridges Differences Fighting
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
Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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Beautiful Crazy Enough
Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.
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Although Always Lonely Raised
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 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
It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.
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Miracle Natural World
Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.
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Disappear Failing Someday
Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).
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Bed Exist Nothing World
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
Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated – defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Sill, to cease living is unacceptable.
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Choices Everyone Love Sleep
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
She was still there inside me now, just as she always was: a life put on hold, a memory I didn’t know how to handle.
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Handle Memories Stills
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
No matter where you are, you’re always a bit on your own, always an outsider.
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Inspire Matter Travel

The night glittered brilliantly then.

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