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Butter

by Asako Yuzuki

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Nana, Vol. 1

by Ai Yazawa

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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

by Svetlana Alexievich

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Ilay’s Notes & Highlights

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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami

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‘You can hide memories, suppress them, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.’ Sara looked directly into his eyes. ‘If nothing else, you need to remember that. You can’t erase history, or change it. It would be like destroying ...more

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Pachinko

by Min Jin Lee

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Ilay’s Quotes

“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

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“Do not allow yourself to be blinded by fear and anger. Everything is only as it is.”
― Yuki Urishibara

tags: angry, fear, hatred, manga, realization, spirit, spirits

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“That was quite a discovery for me, the fact that arbitrary kindness makes me uncomfortable, but that being treated fairly feels good.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Strange Weather in Tokyo

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“Make sure to remember, every person and place has a right to exist. It is true for you too, the entire world, as a whole, is your home.”
― Yuki Urushibara, Mushi-Shi Treasured Edition [1]

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