To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not nece…

Banana Yoshimoto
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To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I had become hardened. Was this what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? I didn't like it, but it made it easier to go on. ✨ Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). Three Plays, p.56, Grove Press
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