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If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.

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April and May were painful, lonely months for me because I couldn't talk to you. I never knew that spring could be so painful and lonely. Better to ha...more

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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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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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A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not ...more

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If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.

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I still don't know what sort of world this is, she thought, But whatever world we're in now, I'm sure this is where I will stay. Where we will stay. T...more

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A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.

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Don’t you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it happens. I really do, for your sake. B...more

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For a ten-year-old boy and a ten-year-old girl to become good friends was not easy under any circumstances. Indeed, it might be one of the most diffic...more

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There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.

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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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In that sense, this is not a standard book of interviews. Nor is it what you might call a book of 'celebrity conversations.' What I was searching for ...more

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I have met many different people in the course of my life, some of whom I have come to know pretty well, but where these three traits are concerned, I...more