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Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).

Banana Yoshimoto

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
The night glittered brilliantly then.
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Brilliant Glitter Night
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
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
She was still there inside me now, just as she always was: a life put on hold, a memory I didn’t know how to handle.
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Handle Memories Stills
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
Here in this ocean, in the midst of all this water, with the red flags on those distant buoys flapping in the sea breeze, I find myself unable to treat our house in Tokyo as anything but a dream.
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Breeze Dream Ocean Sea
Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).
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Bed Exist Nothing World
In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions, much of one’s life history is etched in the senses. And things of no particular importance, or irreplaceable things, can suddenly resurface in a café one winter night.
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Emotion Flow Much Night Sense Winter
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
When someone tells you something big, it’s like you’re taking money from them, and there’s no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening.
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Listening Responsibility Way
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
No matter where you are, you’re always a bit on your own, always an outsider.
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Inspire Matter Travel
Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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Beautiful Crazy Enough
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
It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.
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Felt Gorgeous Sadness

Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).

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Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).

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