"To the extent that I had come to……" — Banana Yoshimoto
"To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I had become hardened. Was this what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? I didn't like it, but it made it easier to go on."
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Banana Yoshimoto
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87 Quotes by Banana Yoshimoto
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Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person's mind.
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Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
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I spent most of my time thinking, because I didn't have enough energy to do anything else.
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Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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