Takashi Hiraide Quotes

#1. By late autumn the yard would grow thick with fallen leaves, causing the landlady to heave many deep sighs.

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#2. The cat's manner of rejection was like cold, white light.

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#3. I wonder where it all comes from--this need to go to the place where the body has been laid to rest. It's the need to reconfirm how precious someone was and how irreplaceable, and the desire to reconnect with them on a different plane.

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#4. Then she told me about a philosopher who said that observation is at its core an expression of love which doesn't get caught up in sentiment.

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#5. There's a photographer who says cat lovers always believe their own cat is better looking than anyone else's. According to her, they've all got blinders on.

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#6. Looking back on it now, I'd say one's thirties are a cruel age. At this point, I think of them as a time I whiled away unaware of the tide that can suddenly pull you out, beyond the shallows, into the sea of hardship, and even death.

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#7. Chibi is a friend with whom I share an understanding, and who just happens to have taken on the form of a cat

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#8. He imagined fate as a goddess, capricious and fickle, or as a river, which could flood at any moment

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#9. The noble-minded do not thrust others aside in order to make their way in the world. But then they themselves are ultimately thrust aside by the advancing tide.

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#10. The word "to grieve" or "lament" in Japanese is actually made up of two different kanji characters - "sadness" and "resentment.

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#11. Chibi was a jewel of a cat.

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