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“The human essence lies in complexity', she replies. 'The objects of scientific investigation lie not in the object, you know, but in the subject contained within the human body.'
'Yeah?'
'In any case, you must live. Live! Live! Live! That's all. The most important thing is to go on living. That's all I can say. Really, that's all. I'm just a girl with metaphysical soles.'
(The 1963/1982 Girl from Ipanema)”
― The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
'Yeah?'
'In any case, you must live. Live! Live! Live! That's all. The most important thing is to go on living. That's all I can say. Really, that's all. I'm just a girl with metaphysical soles.'
(The 1963/1982 Girl from Ipanema)”
― The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
“The bones came jumbled together from the kitchen... there was no way of telling my parents from my Brothers and Sisters. I put them all in the same urn. Sometimes, late at night, I hold them in my hands and cry.”
― The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
― The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
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