I dislike noise, so if you're noisy, that's probably why i dislike you.
"'Life can be so hard.' I said, moved,
'Yes, but if a person hasn't ever experienced true despair,
she grows old never knowing how to evaluate where she is in life;
never understanding what joy really is. I'm grateful for it."
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"No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die.
Without that, I am not alive."
-Banana Yoshimoto's novella Kitchen