It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.
BANANA YOSHIMOTOEverything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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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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Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).
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It didn’t matter whether he was nearby or far away. His image would drift up into your mind just when you least expected it, shocking you, making your chest pound. Making your heart ache.
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I spent most of my time thinking, because I didn’t have enough energy to do anything else.
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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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Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person’s mind.
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Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.
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Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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I had been walking in silence for so long,I had almost forgotten what my own voice sounded like.My knees were tired;my toes were beginning to ache.
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It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.
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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 felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.
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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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Over and over, we begin again.
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Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
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