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“I lost the things that had given me shape, and as they disappeared, I felt like I was dissolving into thin air.”
― Kabi Nagata, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

“I was excessively afraid of being defined as a woman before I was seen as myself.”
― Nagata Kabi, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

“Will this story someday become my own congealing? How do I know. If there's any truth in it—and of course the story is true though invented—may everyone recognize it in himself because all of us are one and he who is not poor in money is poor in spirit or longing because he lacks something more precious than gold—there are those who lack the delicate essential.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“There are people who say that "when you reject one thing about me, I take it as a full rejection of me as a person".”
― Kabi Nagata, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness