People aren’t overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.
BANANA YOSHIMOTOI really believe that no matter how old people get, they tend to change in certain ways depending on how people treat them – they change their colors.
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I really believe that no matter how old people get, they tend to change in certain ways depending on how people treat them – they change their colors.
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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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I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.
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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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Once you’ve recognized your own limits, you’ve raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you’re closer to the real you.
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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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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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Love is the kind of thing that’s already happening by the time you notice it, that’s how it works, and no matter how old you get, that doesn’t change. Except that you can break it up into two entirely distinct types — love where there’s an end in sight and love where there isn’t.
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When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.
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If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.
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People who are going to get along really well know it almost as soon as they meet. You spend a little while talking and everyone starts to feel this conviction, you’re all equally sure that you’re at the beginning of something good. That’s how it is when you meet people you’re going to be with for a long time.
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It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.
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But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.
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Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.
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