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People aren’t overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.

Banana Yoshimoto

As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won’t let my spirit be destroyed.
BANANA YOSHIMOTO

Feet Rocks Suffering
Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
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Adults Mean Ugly
Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person’s mind.
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Enough Mind Tea
I was happy. I loved the night, I loved t so much it almost hurt. In the night everything seemed possible. I wasn’t sleepy at all.
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Hurt Night Sleepy
Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more–it’s sad, but that’s the truth.
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Awful Goodness Out Standing
This is what it means to be loved… when someone wants to touch you, to be tender.
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Mean Someone Tender Want
When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.
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Bad Comfort Place Placeness Thing
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.
BANANA YOSHIMOTO

Fate Mean Missing
it’ll be this kind of deep blue”she said. “The kind of color that somehow sucks your eyes and your ears and all your words -the color of a completely closed-in night
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Blue Eye Night
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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Guilt Twist Uncertain
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
Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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Beautiful Crazy Enough
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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Alive Matter Want
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
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.
BANANA YOSHIMOTO

Depression Lying Strong
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

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