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Quizás aun no te comprenda. Pero, con un poco de tiempo, llegaré a entenderte. Y no habrá nadie en el mundo que te comprenda mejor que yo.

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Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like...more

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I might have been afraid that if I really loved someone and needed her, one day she might suddenly disappear without a word, and I'd be left all alone...more

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Still, the time I spent with her was more precious than anything. She helped me forget the undertone of loneliness in my life. She expanded the outer ...more

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But you knoe, she's right. Every single day, each time I see her face, see her, it's utterly precious.

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Rock and roll was my favorite, but before long I grew to enjoy Shinamoto's brand of classical music. This was music from another world, which had its ...more

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He stopped complaining, but now I was annoyed. I went to the roof and drank alone.

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If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.

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April and May were painful, lonely months for me because I couldn't talk to you. I never knew that spring could be so painful and lonely. Better to ha...more

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There's no sense forcing yourself if you don't feel like it. Tell you the truth, I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fe...more

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I think most readers would say the same. Most would choose Midori. And the protagonist, of course, chooses her in the end. But some part of him is alw...more

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For some reason all the middle-aged women he knew were very efficient.

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I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't...more

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A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not ...more

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Sex with a married woman ten years his senior was stress free and fulfilling, because it couldn't lead to anything