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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

Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated.
BANANA YOSHIMOTO

Defeated Feet Suffering
On nights like this when the air is so clear, you end up saying things you ordinarily wouldn’t. Without even noticing what you’re doing, you open up your heart and just start talking to the person next to you-you talk as if you have no audience but the glittering stars, far overhead.
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Heart Night Stars
Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
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Adults Mean Ugly
Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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Beautiful Crazy Enough
It didn’t matter whether he was nearby or far away. His image would drift up into your mind just when you least expected it, shocking you, making your chest pound. Making your heart ache.
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Heart Matter Mind
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
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
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
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
It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.
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Felt Gorgeous Sadness
People aren’t overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.
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Defeat Overcoming People
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
Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).
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Bed Exist Nothing World
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
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

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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