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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.

Banana Yoshimoto

In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions, much of one’s life history is etched in the senses. And things of no particular importance, or irreplaceable things, can suddenly resurface in a café one winter night.
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Emotion Flow Much Night Sense Winter
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 felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.
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Feelings Important Proud
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
Over and over, we begin again.
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Bare Over Tree
When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.
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Bad Comfort Place Placeness Thing
It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.
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Miracle Natural World
The night glittered brilliantly then.
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Brilliant Glitter Night
Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
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Adults Mean Ugly
I held the feeling in my heart; the urge to discuss it died out. There was all the time in the world. In the endless repetition of other nights, other mornings, this moment, too, might become a dream.
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Dream Heart Morning
I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it.
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Deep Breath Taken
Every time I look into his eyes I just want to take the ice cream or whatever I’ve got in my hand and rub it into his face. That’s how much I like him.
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Eye Hand Ice Cream
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
It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I’d miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I’m sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things.
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Days Long Missing Ordinary
Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.
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Disappear Failing Someday
Why is it that everything I eat when I’m with you is so delicious?’ I laughed. ‘Could it be that you’re satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?
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Hunger Laugh Lust

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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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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