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“Books will always be essencial for some people. And bookshops are a place for those people to discover the books that will become important to them.”

“when you are in contact with the poet’s soul and their attitude to life, your response to their poetry becomes even more powerful. you can, in a sense, even enter into the life of that poet and feel moved in the same way.”

“you may say that it was the book, but it’s how you read a book that is most valuable, rather than any power it might have itself”

“I still don’t know what i want to do, or what i can do. What i do know is that there’s no need to panic, or do more than i can cope with right now. […] I’ll prepare myself, like Guri and Gura gathering chestnuts in the forest.
Because I never know when i might find my own giant egg.”

“in a world where you don’t know what will happen next, i just do what i can right now”

“sometimes, though, i think about the future. What will I be doing years from now? I don’t have the same kind of burning desire like i used to when all I wanted was to escape to Tokyo, and I don’t feel excited anymore about achieving a goal.”