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Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow

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Allowing ourselves to become pure point of view, we hang in midair over the city. What we see now is a gigantic metropolis waking up. Commuter trains ...more

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It's not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There's a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a ...more

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I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about people who dream and wait for the ...more

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This life is nothing but a short, painful dream.

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Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.

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She tried to think about what lay ahead, but soon gave up. 'Words turn into stone,' Nimit had told her. She settled deep into her seat and closed her ...more

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Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.

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With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.

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Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

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Everything has boundaries. The same holds true with thought. You shouldn't fear boundaries, but you should not be afraid of destroying them. That's wh...more

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Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile, easily damaged. Cut t...more

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One other thing I learned from working in a company was that the majority of people in the world have no problem following orders. They're actually ha...more

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Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.

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I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off forever by a gust of wind.