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“He said he taught himself to concentrate really fiercely, to cut his mind off from his body. He found that it wasn’t all that hard, but he also discovered that it was a dangerous thing to do in the real world.”

“I just liked coming here and feeling things each day, and recording those feelings in a kind of big way in a picture. That was how I saw what I was doing.”

“I seemed to be in love, not just playing—a woman loving a man. I could tell because I was cautious, the way my mom had been with my dad. That’s how she was: the deeper she loved, the more hesitant she was.”

“The hubbub of the place and the scent of coffee and the voices of so many young people left me feeling a bit dazed, since I had been away from these things for a while. It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambience was what I’d miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I’m sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things.”

“So I can’t deny that Nakajima—who is rather odd—was sometimes a bit too much for me, and in my dealings with him, part of me was always ready to run away.”

“Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more—it’s sad, but that’s the truth.”