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You know, Chihiro, darling- all it takes is one little wrong step and you end up feeling frustrated your whole life, like me.

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
Over and over, we begin again.
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Bare Over Tree
Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can’t make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don’t get back on track somehow, I’m dead, that’s the sense I get. There isn’t a single strong emotion inside me.
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Depression Lying Strong
Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Inspirational Life Love
Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).
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Bed Exist Nothing World
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
Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
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Adults Mean Ugly
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
I love feeling the rhythm of other people’s lives. It’s like traveling.
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Feelings Love People Rhythm Travel
Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you’ll never make it to the top.
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Fate Mean Missing
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
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
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
Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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Beautiful Crazy Enough
It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.
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Felt Gorgeous Sadness
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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Long Tired Voice

You know, Chihiro, darling- all it takes is one little wrong step and you end up feeling frustrated your whole life, like me.

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