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

Banana Yoshimoto

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.
BANANA YOSHIMOTO

Knows Mean 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
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
The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it’s a kitchen, if it’s a place where they make food, it’s fine with me. Ideally it should be well broken in. Lots of tea towels, dry and immaculate. Where tile catching the light (ting! Ting!)” (p. 3).
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Broken Kitchen Light
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
I love feeling the rhythm of other people’s lives. It’s like traveling.
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Feelings Love People Rhythm Travel
I had been walking in silence for so long,I had almost forgotten what my own voice sounded like.My knees were tired;my toes were beginning to ache.
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Long Tired Voice
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
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
Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can’t make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don’t get back on track somehow, I’m dead, that’s the sense I get. There isn’t a single strong emotion inside me.
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Depression Lying Strong
I really believe that no matter how old people get, they tend to change in certain ways depending on how people treat them – they change their colors.
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Believe Color People
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
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 ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.
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Body Daily Life Ritual
When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.
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Bad Comfort Place Placeness Thing

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

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