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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.

Banana Yoshimoto

In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one’s life history is etched in the senses.
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Emotion Flow Sense Uncertain
Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.
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Although Always Lonely Raised
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 was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.
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Miracle Natural World
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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Levels Limits Real
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
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
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
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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Long People Talking
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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Happen Love Sight Two Work
Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water.
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Loneliness Nice Water
Why is it that everything I eat when I’m with you is so delicious?’ I laughed. ‘Could it be that you’re satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?
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Hunger Laugh Lust
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
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
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
That’s the advantage of insomnia. People who go to be early always complain that the night is too short, but for those of us who stay up all night, it can feel as long as a lifetime. You get a lot done
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Good Insomnia Long Night

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