dead-end memories – banana yoshimoto
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I’m not quite sure how to put this, but it was almost as though—because Nishiyama had already come through the hardest times of his life—the gods had granted him a kind of grace in the form of permission to simply enjoy the remainder of it.
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Keep Nishiyama with you, and fortune will be on your side! Find refuge from the anxieties and uncertainties of this world.
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Because what you choose to pay attention to defines your world. That was the conclusion I came to.
