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H. L. Dawson

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“Even if I now saw you
only once,
I would long for you
through worlds,
worlds.”
― Izumi Shikibu, The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan

tags: longing, love, rejection

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“The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

tags: escape, flee, flight, haruki-murakami, imagination, imagine, japan, japanese, murakami, reality, the-wind-up-bird-chronicle

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“We live together, but I am not Noriko's cat.
Forever and ever I am your cat, Satoru. That's why I can't become Noriko's.”
― Hiro Arikawa, Nana Du Ký

tags: cats, friendship, japan, love, pets

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“Separation

Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.”
― W.S. Merwin

tags: influence, loneliness, loss, poetry

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“I don't remember who spoke first, but I do recall the first words between us: "How often we meet among old books!"
This was the start of our friendship.”
― Ōgai Mori, The Wild Geese

tags: friendship, japan, japanese, japanese-literature

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