"Living like that utterly convinced me of the……" — Banana Yoshimoto
"Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a chlld then,so I have only an intuitive understanding of the degree to which one losses control of words once they are spoken or written. It was then that I first felt a deep curiosity about language, and understood it as a tool that encompasses both a single moment and eternity"
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87 Quotes by Banana Yoshimoto
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