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And you came to Finland to build a station?""No I came here on vacation to visit a friend.""That's good," the driver said. "Vacations and friends are ...more

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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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Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow

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It was a different sense of isolation from what he normally felt in Japan. And not such a bad feeling, he decided. Being alone in two senses of the wo...more

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all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody's reach. A place beyond the flow of time.