Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).
BANANA YOSHIMOTOI love feeling the rhythm of other people’s lives. It’s like traveling.
More Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
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No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.
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When someone tells you something big, it’s like you’re taking money from them, and there’s no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening.
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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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This is what it means to be loved… when someone wants to touch you, to be tender.
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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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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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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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Over and over, we begin again.
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The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.
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Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I mean by ‘their happiness’ is living a life untouched as much as possible by the knowledge that we are really, all of us, alone. That’s not a bad thing.
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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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I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.
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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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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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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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