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“My life is nowhere but here, and I am nowhere else.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All The Lovers In The Night

“I’d been on my own for ages, and I was convinced that there was no way I could be any more alone, but now I’d finally realized how alone I truly was. Despite the crowds of people, and all the different places, and a limitless supply of sounds and colors packed together, there was nothing here that I could reach out and touch.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“My words were smaller than my feelings at that moment. I had spent my life finding diplomatic words. Am I a diplomat then? Isn’t it hard enough to play Beethoven”
― Deborah Levy, August Blue

“Why does the night have to be so beautiful? As I walk through the night, I remember what Mitsutsuka said to me. “Because at night, only half the world remains.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night