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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “I have these two different images of her etched into my memory: one as this idealized mother, and the other as a sort of pressure weighing down on me – obsessive, feminine love.”

151. “I have these two different images of her etched into my memory: one as this idealized mother, and the other as a sort of pressure weighing down on me – obsessive, feminine love.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “It was as if his tears had nowhere to go, they were meant for god alone.”

152. “It was as if his tears had nowhere to go, they were meant for god alone.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “You have to take responsibility for listening.”

153. “You have to take responsibility for listening.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “Thanks so much for seeing, the first time you met us, that even though we’re like ghosts, the two of us, even though we’re not supposed to exist, we are alive.”

154. “Thanks so much for seeing, the first time you met us, that even though we’re like ghosts, the two of us, even though we’re not supposed to exist, we are alive.”

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

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

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “When you love someone, you want to know. Even about the things that are hard for them.”

156. “When you love someone, you want to know. Even about the things that are hard for them.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “I’m extremely, almost pathologically sensitive to violence, and I pick up on it immediately when something violent is happening. Most people are constantly perpetrating little acts of violence on others, even when they don’t mean to.”

157. “I’m extremely, almost pathologically sensitive to violence, and I pick up on it immediately when something violent is happening. Most people are constantly perpetrating little acts of violence on others, even when they don’t mean to.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “But every time my thoughts reached this point, every time, my desire to speak would vanish. And so we remained precisely as we were, making no waves, at a standstill.”

158. “But every time my thoughts reached this point, every time, my desire to speak would vanish. And so we remained precisely as we were, making no waves, at a standstill.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “It was the truth. I felt a yearning love for every instant that passed.”

159. “It was the truth. I felt a yearning love for every instant that passed.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “One of the things you lost sight of when you lived in the city was the sense of how much power an individual had.”

160. “One of the things you lost sight of when you lived in the city was the sense of how much power an individual had.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “This world of ours is piled high with farewells and goodbyes of so many different kinds, like the evening sky renewing itself again and again from one instant to the next-and I didn’t want to forget a single one.”

161. “This world of ours is piled high with farewells and goodbyes of so many different kinds, like the evening sky renewing itself again and again from one instant to the next-and I didn’t want to forget a single one.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “Things that don’t matter at all to one person can hurt another so deeply it seems as bad as dying.”

162. “Things that don’t matter at all to one person can hurt another so deeply it seems as bad as dying.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “If I were really in love, I don’t think I could have said that. I probably would have tried to toy with his feelings a bit more, or maybe I would have had trouble finding the words. But all I felt then was a desire to help. And while I didn’t yet know the reason, it frightened me much more to think of him getting hurt than it did to think of someone else getting hurt.”

163. “If I were really in love, I don’t think I could have said that. I probably would have tried to toy with his feelings a bit more, or maybe I would have had trouble finding the words. But all I felt then was a desire to help. And while I didn’t yet know the reason, it frightened me much more to think of him getting hurt than it did to think of someone else getting hurt.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “Listen kiddo, by the time you grow up you’ll have collected a whole lot of this ‘dirt of life’ stuff, right, you won’t know where it’s coming from but it’ll pile up, and clothes and pearls won’t look as beautiful to you as they do now – that’s for sure. The problem is that dirt, see? You can’t ever settle down in one place, you’ve got to live like you’re always, always staring way off into the distance.”

164. “Listen kiddo, by the time you grow up you’ll have collected a whole lot of this ‘dirt of life’ stuff, right, you won’t know where it’s coming from but it’ll pile up, and clothes and pearls won’t look as beautiful to you as they do now – that’s for sure. The problem is that dirt, see? You can’t ever settle down in one place, you’ve got to live like you’re always, always staring way off into the distance.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “In retrospect I realise that fate was a ladder on which, at the time, I could not afford to miss a single rung.”

165. “In retrospect I realise that fate was a ladder on which, at the time, I could not afford to miss a single rung.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “All I wanted was to get through this as quickly as possible, to see the day when memories be just memories.”

166. “All I wanted was to get through this as quickly as possible, to see the day when memories be just memories.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “But that’s only because we have to be that way in order to get on with our lives. Just because people are playing doesn’t mean their hearts aren’t in it.”

167. “But that’s only because we have to be that way in order to get on with our lives. Just because people are playing doesn’t mean their hearts aren’t in it.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who’ve been through something traumatic.”

168. “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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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “When people start getting depressed there’s just no end to it – things just seem to get worse and worse.”

169. “When people start getting depressed there’s just no end to it – things just seem to get worse and worse.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “There are no rules here, except that you have to sit properly at the bar when you drink. People can tell me anything they want. Things they wouldn’t usually say, things that wouldn’t be acceptable at work – it doesn’t matter. That’s what this place is for, after all: they come and pay money to buy themselves, their innermost hearts, a bit of freedom.” She.”

170. “There are no rules here, except that you have to sit properly at the bar when you drink. People can tell me anything they want. Things they wouldn’t usually say, things that wouldn’t be acceptable at work – it doesn’t matter. That’s what this place is for, after all: they come and pay money to buy themselves, their innermost hearts, a bit of freedom.” She.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “It felt like the inside of my stomach had turned completely black. Like a black hole. You could throw in anything you liked, I wouldn’t even notice – my head was drifting through the clouds – everything would just go right in, things just kept going in... I was dragging all this black stuff along behind me, it was so heavy I could barely stand.”

171. “It felt like the inside of my stomach had turned completely black. Like a black hole. You could throw in anything you liked, I wouldn’t even notice – my head was drifting through the clouds – everything would just go right in, things just kept going in... I was dragging all this black stuff along behind me, it was so heavy I could barely stand.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “I wished my heart would break and get it over with.”

172. “I wished my heart would break and get it over with.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “If you – or anyone on this train, for that matter – thought of life as a kind of train, instead of worrying only about your usual destinations, you’d be surprised how far you could go, just with the money you have in your wallet right now.”

173. “If you – or anyone on this train, for that matter – thought of life as a kind of train, instead of worrying only about your usual destinations, you’d be surprised how far you could go, just with the money you have in your wallet right now.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “Considering how smart Nakajima was, I bet he could have found a way to express more precisely what it was like to push his body to the limit while studying, or his perspective on the way my emotions were structured inside me. He was just being nice, communicating on my level. That’s what made it sound vague.”

174. “Considering how smart Nakajima was, I bet he could have found a way to express more precisely what it was like to push his body to the limit while studying, or his perspective on the way my emotions were structured inside me. He was just being nice, communicating on my level. That’s what made it sound vague.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a child then, so I had 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.”

175. “Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a child then, so I had 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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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “My fury was lofty, pure, cool.”

176. “My fury was lofty, pure, cool.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “When we start something new, at first it is very muddy, and clouded. But soon, it becomes a clean stream, whose flows conducts itself quietly, through spontaneous movements.”

177. “When we start something new, at first it is very muddy, and clouded. But soon, it becomes a clean stream, whose flows conducts itself quietly, through spontaneous movements.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “All the possibilities for growth seemed to be closed off for us. Like plants in a greenhouse, we depended on each other, but neither of us enjoyed the feelings of release or openness that one would wish from such a relationship. We just sat together in the dark, licking each other’s wounds and clinging together for warmth, like an old couple.”

178. “All the possibilities for growth seemed to be closed off for us. Like plants in a greenhouse, we depended on each other, but neither of us enjoyed the feelings of release or openness that one would wish from such a relationship. We just sat together in the dark, licking each other’s wounds and clinging together for warmth, like an old couple.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “For ten years I had been protected, wrapped up in something like a blanket that had been stitched together from all kinds of different things. But people never notice that warmth until after they’ve emerged. You don’t even notice that you’ve been inside until it’s too late for you ever to go back – that’s how perfect the temperature of that blanket is.”

179. “For ten years I had been protected, wrapped up in something like a blanket that had been stitched together from all kinds of different things. But people never notice that warmth until after they’ve emerged. You don’t even notice that you’ve been inside until it’s too late for you ever to go back – that’s how perfect the temperature of that blanket is.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “And it’s true, I thought, interesting things do happen, even in the midst of the blackest nights. And when you take a spill, you can always rise up from it with something good in your hand.”

180. “And it’s true, I thought, interesting things do happen, even in the midst of the blackest nights. And when you take a spill, you can always rise up from it with something good in your hand.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “I’d assumed that once I’d passed the age of twenty, I’d gained the power to do everything alone. But I’d been wrong about that, and this just brought it home to me, again, that I still had a long way to go.”

181. “I’d assumed that once I’d passed the age of twenty, I’d gained the power to do everything alone. But I’d been wrong about that, and this just brought it home to me, again, that I still had a long way to go.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “If you’re not in love with him, you can understand him.”

182. “If you’re not in love with him, you can understand him.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “The words I read in books seemed to strike me more deeply, and with my senses sharpened by grief, I noticed the glittering transition of the seasons as clearly as if I held the grief in the palm of my hand. It had been a long while since I’d experienced a fall so clear and crisp.”

183. “The words I read in books seemed to strike me more deeply, and with my senses sharpened by grief, I noticed the glittering transition of the seasons as clearly as if I held the grief in the palm of my hand. It had been a long while since I’d experienced a fall so clear and crisp.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “Se anche solo per un istante pensavo di essere strana, gli occhi di mia madre mi guardavano da sopra gli occhiali, e come due puntine da disegno mi fissavano saldamente al mio posto nel mondo.”

184. “Se anche solo per un istante pensavo di essere strana, gli occhi di mia madre mi guardavano da sopra gli occhiali, e come due puntine da disegno mi fissavano saldamente al mio posto nel mondo.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “We’d given up thinking about things as though we understood them, or even as though we could, and committed to living our days like a continuous length of thread we were each spinning.”

185. “We’d given up thinking about things as though we understood them, or even as though we could, and committed to living our days like a continuous length of thread we were each spinning.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “This was precisely what made him so nice. He was even considerate to ghosts.”

186. “This was precisely what made him so nice. He was even considerate to ghosts.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “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.”

187. “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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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “Peace and acceptance suddenly fell into my hands. Like a patch of rich soil that had soaked up plenty of sun mounding gently up into an empty space, I felt something akin to an answer settle in me.”

188. “Peace and acceptance suddenly fell into my hands. Like a patch of rich soil that had soaked up plenty of sun mounding gently up into an empty space, I felt something akin to an answer settle in me.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “I’d always believed I didn’t take up a lot of space in this world – that it hardly mattered whether I was here or not. When a person left, the people around them got used to their absence. That was true enough. But when I pictured the world without me, and the people I loved living on in it, I couldn’t help but feel like crying.”

189. “I’d always believed I didn’t take up a lot of space in this world – that it hardly mattered whether I was here or not. When a person left, the people around them got used to their absence. That was true enough. But when I pictured the world without me, and the people I loved living on in it, I couldn’t help but feel like crying.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “You know all the right techniques, all the secrets. You understand how to flow with time, and not get stuck in one place. Once you master one thing and have done it enough, you move on. Or at least you’re good at pretending to move on. I think most people live their lives repeating the same patterns, again and again and again.”

190. “You know all the right techniques, all the secrets. You understand how to flow with time, and not get stuck in one place. Once you master one thing and have done it enough, you move on. Or at least you’re good at pretending to move on. I think most people live their lives repeating the same patterns, again and again and again.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “Floating in a dream, I watched her walk away. That she had come to me at the end of a long night of misery made me want to cry tears of joy. I wanted to tell her: “How happy I am that you came to me like an apparition in that bluish mist. Now everything around me will be a little bit better when I wake up.” At last I was able to fall asleep.”

191. “Floating in a dream, I watched her walk away. That she had come to me at the end of a long night of misery made me want to cry tears of joy. I wanted to tell her: “How happy I am that you came to me like an apparition in that bluish mist. Now everything around me will be a little bit better when I wake up.” At last I was able to fall asleep.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “People tend to think they break up because they get tired of the person they’ve been with – that it’s someone’s decision, either yours or theirs. But this isn’t really true. Periods in our lives end the way seasons change. That’s all there is to it.”

192. “People tend to think they break up because they get tired of the person they’ve been with – that it’s someone’s decision, either yours or theirs. But this isn’t really true. Periods in our lives end the way seasons change. That’s all there is to it.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “I was a firm believer in the idea that coincidences always came along at the right time. I felt there was some kind of reason for the way things happened as they did, like bubbles from my subconscious mind rising to the surface.”

193. “I was a firm believer in the idea that coincidences always came along at the right time. I felt there was some kind of reason for the way things happened as they did, like bubbles from my subconscious mind rising to the surface.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “What a comfort it was, I thought, to hear someone put into words something that you were on the verge of grasping.”

194. “What a comfort it was, I thought, to hear someone put into words something that you were on the verge of grasping.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “Sounds great,” I agreed. I would go out with Akira and forget, for a brief while, the sorrow that clings to life. I would pretend for a moment that my sadness might someday disappear.”

195. “Sounds great,” I agreed. I would go out with Akira and forget, for a brief while, the sorrow that clings to life. I would pretend for a moment that my sadness might someday disappear.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “There was a candor about him I noticed in people whose parents had given them something unconditional and absolute growing up.”

196. “There was a candor about him I noticed in people whose parents had given them something unconditional and absolute growing up.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “Nothing could take away the sights that my eyes had seen, that my mind remembered, or that I lived in the very cells that made up my body. Take that, time, I thought, and squeezed my hand into a fist.”

197. “Nothing could take away the sights that my eyes had seen, that my mind remembered, or that I lived in the very cells that made up my body. Take that, time, I thought, and squeezed my hand into a fist.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “Mari had stopped responding to the outside world, she’d pulled the plug on the whole system, she was taking a break – I felt convinced of this. Because, as she saw things right now, life was nothing but pain.”

198. “Mari had stopped responding to the outside world, she’d pulled the plug on the whole system, she was taking a break – I felt convinced of this. Because, as she saw things right now, life was nothing but pain.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “I felt that I was the only person alive and moving in a world brought to a stop. Houses always feel like that after someone has died.”

199. “I felt that I was the only person alive and moving in a world brought to a stop. Houses always feel like that after someone has died.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “Time simply floated open and started to expand. Time held the two of us in light, inside a space so vast it might have reached the heavens, and turned eternal.”

200. “Time simply floated open and started to expand. Time held the two of us in light, inside a space so vast it might have reached the heavens, and turned eternal.”

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