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Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who’ve been through something traumatic.

Banana Yoshimoto

Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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Beautiful Crazy Enough
Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.
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Disappear Failing Someday
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
The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.
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Body Daily Life Ritual
Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person’s mind.
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Enough Mind Tea
Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).
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Bed Exist Nothing World
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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Knows Mean Way
This world of ours is piled high with farewells and goodbyes of so many different kinds, like the evening sky renewing itself again and again from one instant to the next-and I didn’t want to forget a single one.
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Farewell Goodbye Sky
You have the nicest window, you know? None of the others can even compete. It´s not flashy like the others, or bleary – your window gives of this nice, quiet light.
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Giving Light Nice
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
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
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
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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Levels Limits Real
Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
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Adults Mean Ugly
I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn’t up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness.
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Benefits Ratio World
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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Good Insomnia Long Night

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