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Mieko Kawakami

Breasts and Eggs

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  • ilanahas quoted3 days ago
    People like pretty things. When you’re pretty, everybody wants to look at you, they want to touch you. I wanted that for myself. Prettiness means value. But some people never experience that personally.
  • ilanahas quoted3 days ago
    Pretty faces, gorgeous skin. The sort of shapely breasts that anyone would kill for.
  • ilanahas quoted3 days ago
    Beauty meant that you were good. And being good meant being happy. Happiness can be defined all kinds of ways, but human beings, consciously or unconsciously, are always pulling for their own version of happiness. Even people who want to die see death as a kind of solace, and view ending their lives as the only way to make it there. Happiness is the base unit of consciousness, our single greatest motivator.
  • ilanahas quoted3 days ago
    I was young once, but I was never pretty. When something isn’t there, inside or out, how are you supposed to seek it out?
  • ilanahas quoted3 days ago
    I was young once, but I was never pretty. When something isn’t there, inside or out, how are you supposed to seek it out?
  • ilanahas quoted5 days ago
    But what’s it all for? Life is hard enough with just one body. Why would anyone ever want to make another one?
  • ilanahas quoted5 days ago
    From birth to death, you have to keep eating and making money just to stay alive.
  • ilanahas quoted5 days ago
    It feels like I’m trapped inside my body.
  • Tes Bhas quotedlast month
    Life is tough, but you gotta keep living until you die,
  • Tes Bhas quotedlast month
    “Life is tough, but you gotta keep living until you die,
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