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“Did mothers always try to press unto their daughters the itineraries of which they themselves had dreamed. Did I?”
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“Yes, you're changing. But the best parts of you are still here.”
― Indelicacy
― Indelicacy
“He was conscious of an emptiness that made him see Komako’s life as beautiful but wasted, even though he himself was the object of her love; and yet the woman’s existence, her straining to live, came touching him like naked skin. He pitied her, and he pitied himself.”
― Snow Country
― Snow Country
“Her manner was as though she were talking of a distant foreign literature. There was something lonely, something sad in it, something that rather suggested a beggar who has lost all desire.”
― Snow Country
― Snow Country
“After all, only women are able really to love.”
― Snow Country
― Snow Country
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