Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.

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Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.

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Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.

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It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for us

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The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night.

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I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love.

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The road was frozen. The village lay quiet under the cold sky. Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono and tucked it into her obi. The moon shone like a blade frozen in blue ice.

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People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development.

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And I can't complain. After all, only women are able really to love.

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The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke.

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