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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.

Banana Yoshimoto

Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
BANANA YOSHIMOTO

Adults Mean Ugly
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
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
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
Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who’ve been through something traumatic.
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Ignorant People Way
The night glittered brilliantly then.
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Brilliant Glitter Night
Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.
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Disappear Failing Someday
People aren’t overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.
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Defeat Overcoming People
Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.
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Although Always Lonely Raised
It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.
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Felt Gorgeous Sadness
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
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
Over and over, we begin again.
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Bare Over Tree
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
Her eyes were those of someone who’s just fallen in love, someone who sees nothing but her lover, someone who has no fear of anything. The eyes of someone who believes that every dream will come true, that reality will move if you just give it a push.
BANANA YOSHIMOTO

Believe Dream Fear
This is what it means to be loved… when someone wants to touch you, to be tender.
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Mean Someone Tender Want

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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