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Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.

Banana Yoshimoto

Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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Beautiful Crazy Enough
When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.
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Bad Comfort Place Placeness Thing
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
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
Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.
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Although Always Lonely Raised
I saw the sky and sea and sand and the flickering flames of the bonfire through my tears. All at once, it rushed into my head with tremendous speed, and made me feel dizzy. It was beautiful. Everything that happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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Beautiful Crazy Flames
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
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
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
Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who’ve been through something traumatic.
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Ignorant People Way
The night glittered brilliantly then.
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Brilliant Glitter Night
The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free.
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Beautiful Heart Sky
Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more–it’s sad, but that’s the truth.
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Awful Goodness Out Standing
People aren’t overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.
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Defeat Overcoming People
It didn’t matter whether he was nearby or far away. His image would drift up into your mind just when you least expected it, shocking you, making your chest pound. Making your heart ache.
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Heart Matter Mind
Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.
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Disappear Failing Someday

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