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“But I wasn’t crying because I was sad. I guess I was crying because we had nowhere else to go, no choice but to go on living in this world. Crying because we had no other world to choose, and crying at everything before us, everything around us.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

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“Listen, if there is a hell, we're in it. And if there's a heaven, we're already there. This is it.”
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“Everything was beautiful. Not that there was anyone to share it with, anyone to tell. Just the beauty.”
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“Does it get easier? Does the sadness go away? The sadness fades, yeah. Eventually. But the missing ... I don't know if that ever does.”
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“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.”
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