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Over and over, we begin again.

Banana Yoshimoto

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
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
To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I had become hardened. Was this what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? I didn’t like it, but it made it easier to go on.
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Adults Despair Mean
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
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 at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.
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Miracle Natural World
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
Over and over, we begin again.
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Bare Over Tree
The night glittered brilliantly then.
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Brilliant Glitter Night
The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.
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Body Daily Life Ritual
Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.
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Although Always Lonely Raised
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
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
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
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
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

Over and over, we begin again.

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