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Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?

Banana Yoshimoto

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
The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.
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Body Daily Life Ritual
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
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
It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.
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Felt Gorgeous Sadness
Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).
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Bed Exist Nothing World
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
I love feeling the rhythm of other people’s lives. It’s like traveling.
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Feelings Love People Rhythm Travel
People aren’t overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.
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Defeat Overcoming People
The night glittered brilliantly then.
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Brilliant Glitter Night
Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person’s mind.
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Enough Mind Tea
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 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
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
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

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