Banana Yoshimoto

It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.

— Banana Yoshimoto

“El arrepentimiento nunca llega antes”

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The night glittered brilliantly then.

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“fight authority with authority,”

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“You have to take responsibility for listening.”

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“Maybe then our stopped time would move again.” The”

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“I’ve traveled a long way today, I often think to myself.”

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Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.

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“If people I don't care for are attracted to me, I accept it as the wages of beauty.”

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No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.

— Banana Yoshimoto

“these people, struggling so hard to impose a shape on a life when life has no shape,”

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“Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person’s mind. Nakajima”

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“The lake has all sorts of different faces. And so it’s always fresh.”

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The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free.

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“Most people are constantly perpetrating little acts of violence on others, even when they don’t mean to.”

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“People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces; defeat invades from within.”

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Why is it that everything I eat when I’m with you is so delicious?’ I laughed. ‘Could it be that you’re satisfying…

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“There are many days when all the awful things that happen make you sick at heart, when the path before you is…

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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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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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“fighting to bridge those gaps isn’t what really matters. The most important thing is to know them inside and out, as differences,…

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“I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual despite of…

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“She could warm up the air, and then gently blow it out, just like a lily. She smelled of a syrup made…

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“I know just how slimy people can be, and how people like that are during the daytime. They don’t get slimy at…

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From the bottom of my heart, I wanted to give up; I wanted to give up on living. There was no denying…

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“in order to grab on to those tiny profits people studiously adopt another perspective, keeping their true opinions to themselves, and no…

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We ran into lots of old friends. Friends from elementary school, junior high school, high school. Everyone had matured in their own…

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Things look different depending on your perspective. As I see it, fighting to bridge those gaps isn't what really matters. The most…

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“Nunca lo he considerado así, pero ahora tengo la impresión de que era inevitable que me ocurriera. Me da la sensación de…

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“… I was thinking, listlessly, is this what it means to be happy? But now I feel it in my gut. Why…

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It’s a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether…

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Ultimately, though, it's living people that frighten me the most. It's always seemed to me that nothing could be scarier than a…

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“Y me daba la sensación de que, aunque lo contemplara desde cierta distancia, observar el mar siempre me enseñaba alguna cosa. Puede…

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“We all believe we can choose our own path from among the many alternatives. But perhaps it's more accurate to say that…

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“It was only after my head started reeling and my body started weaving and I tumbled into bed that I'd hear that…

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“I'll never be able to be here again. As the minutes slide by, I move on. The flow of time is something…

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“These women lived their lives happily. They had been taught, probably by loving parents, not to exceed the boundaries of their happiness…

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“weren't we all the same as children?" eiko asked. "all of us, destined to become beautiful brides in fluffy white dresses!" she…

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“The days I’d passed with my mom before she died were still there, it seemed, seared into the corners of my heart.…

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With a cold"--she spoke evenly, lowering her eyes a little--"now is the hardest time. Maybe even harder than dying. But this is…

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