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For a ten-year-old boy and a ten-year-old girl to become good friends was not easy under any circumstances. Indeed, it might be one of the most diffic...more

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There is one thing I can say for certain: the older a person gets, the lonelier he becomes. It's true for everyone. But maybe that isn't wrong. What I...more

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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It’s like your shadow. It follows you everywhere. -Komura

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Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.

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It was a different sense of isolation from what he normally felt in Japan. And not such a bad feeling, he decided. Being alone in two senses of the wo...more

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all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody's reach. A place beyond the flow of time.

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Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

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I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the m...more