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There is one thing I can say for certain: the older a person gets, the lonelier he becomes. It's true for everyone. But maybe that isn't wrong. What I...more

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Even at a time like this, the street is bright enough and filled with people coming and going—people with places to go and people with no place to go;...more

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People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible...more

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Every once in a while she'll get worked up and cry like that. But that's ok. She's letting her feelings out. The scary thing is not being able to do t...more

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It was as if - this something I thought of only later, of course - she was gently peeling back one layer after another that covered a person's heart, ...more

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It was as if - this something I thought of only later, of course - she were gently peeling back one layer after another that covered a person's heart,...more

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I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am...more

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There are some things in this world that can be done over, and some that can't. And time passing is one thing that can't be undone. Come this far, and...more

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It was as if-this is something I thought of only later, of course-she was gently peeling bcd one layer after another hat covered a person's heart, a v...more

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From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain.

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I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.

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The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

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I feel very strongly that all Japanese at that time had the idea drilled into them of 1999 being the end of the world. Aum renunciates have already ac...more

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What alternative is there to the media’s “Us” versus “Them”? The danger is that if it is used to prop up this “righteous” position of “ours” all we wi...more

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Psychologically speaking (I’ll only wheel out the amateur psychology just this once, so bear with me), encounters that call up strong physical disgust...more