Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow
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Allowing ourselves to become pure point of view, we hang in midair over the city. What we see now is a gigantic metropolis waking up. Commuter trains ...
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I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some extent, I feel k...
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It's not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There's a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a ...
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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 ...
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This life is nothing but a short, painful dream.
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Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.
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She tried to think about what lay ahead, but soon gave up. 'Words turn into stone,' Nimit had told her. She settled deep into her seat and closed her ...
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Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.
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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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I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.
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Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
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Everything has boundaries. The same holds true with thought. You shouldn't fear boundaries, but you should not be afraid of destroying them. That's wh...
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Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile, easily damaged. Cut t...
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Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.
