Tengo wasn´t certain that he was doing the right thing. Maybe the time he was spending here, in this room in a sanatorium far from Tokyo was meaningless. Even if it was, though, he didn´t think he could leave.

Kitąsyk užsimerkęs paliesdavau kokią pažįstamą knygą ir giliai į plaučius įtraukdavau jos kvapą. Vien šito pakakdavo, kad pasijausčiau laimingas.

Mirtis egzistuoja ne kaip gyvenimo priešingybė, o kaip jos dalis.

Who knows? You might get used to this slant on things (but if you did, you'd never be able to view the world again without holding your head out of true.)

Here I had no ties to anyone. Fact is, I'd come to reclaim myself.

What's really important here," I whispered loudly to myself,"is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things you, yourself have

Every single day, each time I see her face, see her, it's utterly precious.