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- You're not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you…
- I tell you, Mr. Okada, a cold beer at the end of the day is the best thing life has to offer. Some choosy people…
- Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't…
- Each individual has their own unique color, which shines faintly around the contours of their body. Like a halo. Or a backlight. I'm able to…
- All over the world people have developed their own ideas about what's right and wrong in life, but so long as you aren't harming others…
- I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.
- I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.
- I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system. It isn't easy…
- To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with one’s own eyes, for example. One…
- And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their…
- People have their own reasons for dying. It might look simple, but it never is. It's just like a rock. What's above ground is only…
- Oshima's silent for a time as he gazes at the forest, eyes narrowed. Birds are flitting from one branch to the next. His hands are…
- What I saw wasn't a ghost. It was simply--myself. I can never forget how terrified I was that night, and whenever I remember it, this…
- Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?" "I wouldn't know," I said. "Nor would we," said the…
- Then when dusk began to settle he would retrace his steps, back to his own world. And on the way home, a loneliness would always…
- Animals that not only move by their own free will and share feelings with people but also possess sight and hearing qualify as deserving of…
- Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at…
- Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything…
- Curiosity can bring guts out of hiding at times, maybe even get them going. But curiosity usually evaporates. Gust have to go for the long…
- Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.
- In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster.
- Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this had been all…
- Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a…
- You know what I'd really like to do the most right now? Climb up to the top of some high place like the pyramids. The…
- All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No…
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