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But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.

Banana Yoshimoto

It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.
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Miracle Natural World
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
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
Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person’s mind.
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Enough Mind Tea
What was important wasn’t the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the sky at the same time.
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Important Sky Together
Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.
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Although Always Lonely Raised
Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).
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Bed Exist Nothing World
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
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
Things look different depending on your perspective. As I see it, fighting to bridge those gaps isn’t what really matters. The most important thing is to know them inside and out, as differences, and to understand why certain people are the way they are.
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Bridges Differences Fighting
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
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
Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Inspirational Life Love
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
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 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

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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