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Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It’s a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo...more

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You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after th...more

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The ones who did it can always rationalize their actions and even forget what they did. They can turn away from things they don't want to see. But the...more

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At some point the future becomes reality. And then it quickly becomes the past.

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To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more they tried to escape from Rus...more

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I skipped the thirty-one years between 1938 and 1965 and jumped to the section entitled “Junitaki Today.” Of course, the book’s “today” being 1970, it...more

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Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.

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With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.

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Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

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Samsa certainly had no idea what lay ahead. He was in the dark about everything: the future, of course, but the present and the past as well . What wa...more

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Dreams are things from the past. They aren't from the future. That wasn't you imprisoned there. You imprison your dreams. You understand?Yeah, I'd say...more

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History cannot be erased or altered.Because that would mean killing yourself.