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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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This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.

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All's well that ends well.''Assuming there's an end somewhere,' Aomame said.Tamaru formed some short creases near his mouth that were faintly reminisc...more

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Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way, there would always be hope ...more

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Wherever there's hope there's a trial.

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It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says, loudly striking a book match and lighting a cigar...more

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I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about people who dream and wait for the ...more

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We truly believed in something back then, and we knew we were the kind of people capable of believing in something - with all our hearts. And that kin...more

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The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.

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There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.