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suffering is a misunderstood pain

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In other words, Shozaburo Takitani was now alone in the world. This was no great shock to him, however, nor did it make him feel particularly sad or m...more

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I was much younger, much hungrier, much more alone. But I was myself, pared down to the essentials.

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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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The two of them on top of the freezing slide, wordlessly holding hands. Once again they were a ten-year-old boy and girl. A lonely boy, and a lonely g...more

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I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.

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Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.

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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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From the photo albums, every single print of her had been peeled away. Shots of the both of us together had been cut, the parts with her neatly trimme...more

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I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling. It was like the ...more

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Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.

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

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Durum semolina, golden wheat wafting in Italian fields. Can you imagine how astonished the Italians would be if they knew that what they were exportin...more

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I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off forever by a gust of wind.

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Along the way I stopped into a coffee shop. All around me normal, everyday city types were going about their normal, everyday affairs. Lovers were whi...more