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Florentyna Leow
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How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart
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published
2023
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3 editions
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Lonely Planet Experience Tokyo
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“Later, someone told me that relationships have a best-before date. What he actually said was 賞味期限 shoumikigen, literally 'the limit of taste'. Technically still edible, but it won't taste good anymore. It won't be at its best. This is a good way to think about growing apart from people, failing to keep in touch, losing touch, letting them go. It made me feel a little better about the friends I had lost; it reminded me that the ones who are here outnumber those who aren't. Some relationships also have a 消費期限 shouhikigen, a real expiry date, the point which something is no longer usable and has to be thrown out.”
― How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart
― How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart
“Home has always been where I once was, and wherever I’m coming back to. There’s a Japanese idiom, 住めば都 sumeba miyako, loosely ‘home is where you decide it is’.”
― How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart
― How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart
“This is the price of leaving: you will always be late to the news, you will always miss the most important and unexpected moments of the lives you left behind, and you will always come back to a place that went on changing without you. I was already familiar with it. I’ve done it so many times. I was going to do it again.”
― How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart
― How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart
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