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Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.

Banana Yoshimoto

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
No matter where you are, you’re always a bit on your own, always an outsider.
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Inspire Matter Travel
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
I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn’t up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness.
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Benefits Ratio World
The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.
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Body Daily Life Ritual
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
Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
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Adults Mean Ugly
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
Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.
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Disappear Failing Someday
Inching one’s way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can’t take any more, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that
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Dark Heart relief Sigh
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
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
Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).
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Bed Exist Nothing World
Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person’s mind.
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Enough Mind Tea
Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated.
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Defeated Feet Suffering

Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.

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