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There are all kinds of things we have to deal with in life,' Eri finally said. 'And one thing always seems to connect with another. You try to solve o...more

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And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is reall...more

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Not being able to find the right words at crucial times is one of my many problems.

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I think most readers would say the same. Most would choose Midori. And the protagonist, of course, chooses her in the end. But some part of him is alw...more

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Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the...more

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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...more

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Latter-day capitalism. Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdivided, made sophisticated. With...more

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The whole universe is like some big FedEx box.

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In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, a...more

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Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from...more

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Unless you find the fundamental cause and treat that, the same problem will surface later on in a different form.

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The darkness behind my closed eyelids was like the cloud-covered sky, but the gray was somewhat deeper. Every few minutes, someone would come and pain...more

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Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?We can invest enormous time and energy in serio...more

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Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance.

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Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people. Other people have their own value to live by, and the same holds ...more