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41 " Sensei did not like anyone to pour his drinks for him. Whether it was beer or saké, he meticulously poured for himself. "
― Hiromi Kawakami , Strange Weather in Tokyo
42 " - Are el un haiku: "Pe marea întunecată / Țipătul unei rațe / Ușor alb "
43 " Is that what you called benevolence? With Sensei, his benevolent nature seemed to originate from his sense of fair-mindedness. It wasn’t about being kind to me; rather, it was born from a teacherly attitude of being willing to listen to my opinion without prejudice. I found this considerably more wonderful than him just being nice to me. "
44 " And I never really acknowledged that any of them were alive in any way. I never gave any thought to the fact that they were leading the same kind of complicated life as I was. "
45 " The idea ... was slightly off-putting, but once I've started drinking, not much can stop me, so I went along. "
46 " Tsukiko, she murmured, being in love makes people uncertain. Don’t you know what that’s like? "
47 " A love fated in the stars.’ As I sat there, watching the happy couple seated on the wedding platform and listening to the toast, I remember thinking to myself there wasn’t a chance in a million that I would ever encounter ‘a love fated in the stars’. "
48 " I stood in front of a bus stop. After waiting ten minutes, there was still no bus. I checked the bus timetable and saw that the last bus had already come and gone. I felt even more lonely. "