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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.

Banana Yoshimoto

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
It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.
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Felt Gorgeous Sadness
I love feeling the rhythm of other people’s lives. It’s like traveling.
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Feelings Love People Rhythm Travel
It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.
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Miracle Natural World
Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
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Adults Mean Ugly
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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Feelings Frustrated Littles
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
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
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
I never tell my boyfriend that I’m busy when I’m not. No matter how effective they are, cheap techniques like that just don’t agree with me. So it’s always okay, it’s always all right. In my opinion the surest way to hook a man is to be as open with him as possible.
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Boyfriend Men Technique
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
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
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 wonder what it felt to move to a country where you didn’t grow up. I had thought about that often since my sister got married. Do you become a character in a story native to that land, or do you, somewhere in your heart, want to return to your homeland.
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Country Grow Up Moving
Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.
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Disappear Failing Someday
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

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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