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"I don't deserve a girl like Hatsumi," Nagasawa once said to me. I had to agree with him."
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"A diamond will never tell you how valuable it is; if you don't already know, you are not worthy of it."
"The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender your will to change and experience life. But options are before you, choose one and dedicate yourself to it. The deeds will give you a new hope and purpose."
"Diamonds are proof that the most valuable things are sometimes formed in the dark."
"If roses were not special weeds would not envy them."
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"I all of a sudden got to feeling like talking to people. Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean. I'm weird like that."
"Only by learning the truth-whatever that truth might be-could people be given the right kind of power."
"I never had what it takes to make a first-rate anything.''That's wrong,' she declared. 'Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it?' But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down."
"In response to my father-in-law's view, I offered no opinion. He was not looking for my opinion. He had merely been spouting his belief, a conviction that would remain unchanged for all eternity."
"Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for half a year, and I never tired of it. What I'd been through seemed so vast, with so many facets. Vast, but real, very real, which was why the experience persisted in towering before me, like a monument lit up at night. And the thing was, it was a monument to me."
"The early autumn sun glinted on the water, an enormous mirror ground to powder and scattered."
"Surfing's a more profound kind of sport than it looks. When you surf, you learn not to fight the power of nature, even if it gets violent."
"It was""how shall I put it?""a painfully solitary building. Let me explain. Say we have a concept. It goes without saying that there will be slight exceptions to that norm. Now, over time these exceptions spread like stains until finally they form a separate concept. To which other exceptions crop up. It was that kind of building, some ancient life form that had evolved blindly, toward who knows what end."
"The most important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school."
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