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Mieko Kawakami Quote: “Smells can remind you of all kinds of things. More than remind, they bypass your mind altogether, tingling in your palms and nose, triggering feelings before they even become feelings.”

51. “Smells can remind you of all kinds of things. More than remind, they bypass your mind altogether, tingling in your palms and nose, triggering feelings before they even become feelings.”

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Mieko Kawakami Quote: “I was alone, and well aware that I would stay alone – but when I pushed myself to do my best and get things done, I wound up feeling like I was standing in a limitless expanse, forsaken and alone, no dream to chase. As much as I loved to hear from Aizawa, I always felt a little lonelier after we spoke.”

52. “I was alone, and well aware that I would stay alone – but when I pushed myself to do my best and get things done, I wound up feeling like I was standing in a limitless expanse, forsaken and alone, no dream to chase. As much as I loved to hear from Aizawa, I always felt a little lonelier after we spoke.”

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Mieko Kawakami Quote: “As I start home she waves at me and says, “Al Pacino!” I raise my hand and wave back and say, “Al Pacino!”

53. “As I start home she waves at me and says, “Al Pacino!” I raise my hand and wave back and say, “Al Pacino!”

— Mieko Kawakami

Mieko Kawakami Quote: “I’ve already had to deal with the hardest thing in the world. You know what that was? It was to try to meet someone who’s already disappeared.”

54. “I’ve already had to deal with the hardest thing in the world. You know what that was? It was to try to meet someone who’s already disappeared.”

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Mieko Kawakami Quote: “As I passed below the haloes of the green and red traffic signals, I was taken by this strange view of the evening, the city streets full of people – people waiting, the people they were waiting for, people out to eat together, people going somewhere together, people heading home together. I allowed my thoughts to settle on the brightness filling their hearts and lungs, squinting as I walked along and counted all the players of this game I would never play.”

55. “As I passed below the haloes of the green and red traffic signals, I was taken by this strange view of the evening, the city streets full of people – people waiting, the people they were waiting for, people out to eat together, people going somewhere together, people heading home together. I allowed my thoughts to settle on the brightness filling their hearts and lungs, squinting as I walked along and counted all the players of this game I would never play.”

— Mieko Kawakami

Mieko Kawakami Quote: “Behind my eyelids, I saw dancing patterns mix and break apart.”

56. “Behind my eyelids, I saw dancing patterns mix and break apart.”

— Mieko Kawakami

Mieko Kawakami Quote: “It’s funny, but when I’m doing nothing, I get this feeling like I’m fighting something. Stick... fighting. It never goes away, even when I’m in bed, even when I’m walking around.”

57. “It’s funny, but when I’m doing nothing, I get this feeling like I’m fighting something. Stick... fighting. It never goes away, even when I’m in bed, even when I’m walking around.”

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Mieko Kawakami Quote: “Once you get your period, that means your body can fertilise sperm. And that means you can get pregnant. And then we get more people, thinking and eating and filling up the world. It’s overwhelming. I get little depressed just thinking about it.”

58. “Once you get your period, that means your body can fertilise sperm. And that means you can get pregnant. And then we get more people, thinking and eating and filling up the world. It’s overwhelming. I get little depressed just thinking about it.”

— Mieko Kawakami

Mieko Kawakami Quote: “I remembered how she wrote once about when you send someone a letter, how it’s out of your hands. It’s not yours anymore, even though you wrote it.”

59. “I remembered how she wrote once about when you send someone a letter, how it’s out of your hands. It’s not yours anymore, even though you wrote it.”

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Mieko Kawakami Quote: “I recognize that luck, effort, and ability are often indistinguishable. And I know that, in the end, I’m just another human being, who’s born only to die. I know that in reality, it makes no difference whether I write novels, and it makes no difference if anyone cares. With all the countless books already out there, the world won’t notice if I fail to publish even one book with my name on it. That’s no tragedy. I know that. I get that.”

60. “I recognize that luck, effort, and ability are often indistinguishable. And I know that, in the end, I’m just another human being, who’s born only to die. I know that in reality, it makes no difference whether I write novels, and it makes no difference if anyone cares. With all the countless books already out there, the world won’t notice if I fail to publish even one book with my name on it. That’s no tragedy. I know that. I get that.”

— Mieko Kawakami

Mieko Kawakami Quote: “This is our will. We let them do this. It’s almost like we chose this. That’s all the more reason why they can’t leave us alone. They’re so scared, so terrified, and there’s nothing they can do to stop it.”

61. “This is our will. We let them do this. It’s almost like we chose this. That’s all the more reason why they can’t leave us alone. They’re so scared, so terrified, and there’s nothing they can do to stop it.”

— Mieko Kawakami

Mieko Kawakami Quote: “Luck, effort, and ability are often indistinguishable.”

62. “Luck, effort, and ability are often indistinguishable.”

— Mieko Kawakami

Mieko Kawakami Quote: “My conclusion is that when it comes to the face, emotions are seventy per cent from the eyebrows and thirty per cent from the mouth.”

63. “My conclusion is that when it comes to the face, emotions are seventy per cent from the eyebrows and thirty per cent from the mouth.”

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Mieko Kawakami Quote: “How many more times in my life would I sit back like this and find myself transfixed by the blue of the evening? Is this what it means to live and die alone? That you’ll always be in the same place, no matter where you are?”

64. “How many more times in my life would I sit back like this and find myself transfixed by the blue of the evening? Is this what it means to live and die alone? That you’ll always be in the same place, no matter where you are?”

— Mieko Kawakami

Mieko Kawakami Quote: “I felt something like a cross between heartache and reassurance.”

65. “I felt something like a cross between heartache and reassurance.”

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Mieko Kawakami Quote: “She grew more nervous every minute, filling like a cup set on the floor to catch a leak. Quiet as she was, I could feel her tensing up.”

66. “She grew more nervous every minute, filling like a cup set on the floor to catch a leak. Quiet as she was, I could feel her tensing up.”

— Mieko Kawakami

Mieko Kawakami Quote: “How did I feel about Kojima? How come I never spoke to her at school or even attempted eye contact? Sure, I was scared of Ninomiya, but what exactly made me scared? Was I afraid of getting hurt? If that was it, if that was what was haunting me, why couldn’t I stand up to him? What does it mean to be hurt? When they bullied me and beat me up, why couldn’t I do anything but obey them? What does it mean to obey? Why was I scared? Why? What does it mean to be scared?”

67. “How did I feel about Kojima? How come I never spoke to her at school or even attempted eye contact? Sure, I was scared of Ninomiya, but what exactly made me scared? Was I afraid of getting hurt? If that was it, if that was what was haunting me, why couldn’t I stand up to him? What does it mean to be hurt? When they bullied me and beat me up, why couldn’t I do anything but obey them? What does it mean to obey? Why was I scared? Why? What does it mean to be scared?”

— Mieko Kawakami

Mieko Kawakami Quote: “You’re betting that the child you bring into this will be at least as happy as you’ve been, at least as fortunate as you’ve been, or, at a minimum, that they’ll be able to say they’re happy they were born.”

68. “You’re betting that the child you bring into this will be at least as happy as you’ve been, at least as fortunate as you’ve been, or, at a minimum, that they’ll be able to say they’re happy they were born.”

— Mieko Kawakami

Mieko Kawakami Quote: “It’s not like I want people to hate me. I’m just not about to go out of my way to make them like me, either. Being liked is wonderful and all, but that’s not what life is about, you know?”

69. “It’s not like I want people to hate me. I’m just not about to go out of my way to make them like me, either. Being liked is wonderful and all, but that’s not what life is about, you know?”

— Mieko Kawakami

Mieko Kawakami Quote: “Without love and trust, resentment is the only thing that’s left.”

70. “Without love and trust, resentment is the only thing that’s left.”

— Mieko Kawakami

Mieko Kawakami Quote: “The sleep was like as it had been cut out from a slab of clay, round and clean.”

71. “The sleep was like as it had been cut out from a slab of clay, round and clean.”

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Mieko Kawakami Quote: “I was impressed by the utter predictability of it all – of how things had turned out exactly the way they should have in a logical, orderly fashion.”

72. “I was impressed by the utter predictability of it all – of how things had turned out exactly the way they should have in a logical, orderly fashion.”

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Mieko Kawakami Quote: “What had come over me? The whole day I’d been running through old memories, getting lost in my own thoughts. But I guess that made sense. It was only natural. Despite Makiko being, in the present, my closest living relative, the bulk of our shared experiences were in the past, from another planet. In that sense, spending time with Makiko meant living in the past.”

73. “What had come over me? The whole day I’d been running through old memories, getting lost in my own thoughts. But I guess that made sense. It was only natural. Despite Makiko being, in the present, my closest living relative, the bulk of our shared experiences were in the past, from another planet. In that sense, spending time with Makiko meant living in the past.”

— Mieko Kawakami

Mieko Kawakami Quote: “Sadness and happiness are all experienced by someone else before us; we’re simply following their lead.”

74. “Sadness and happiness are all experienced by someone else before us; we’re simply following their lead.”

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Mieko Kawakami Quote: “It only took me a couple of hours to realise that she was a woman of talents beyond anything I could imagine – even though I was a stranger to such talents myself.”

75. “It only took me a couple of hours to realise that she was a woman of talents beyond anything I could imagine – even though I was a stranger to such talents myself.”

— Mieko Kawakami

Mieko Kawakami Quote: “A long time ago, all these important people wrote about how dirty women are, and why that’s bad.”

76. “A long time ago, all these important people wrote about how dirty women are, and why that’s bad.”

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