“As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.”
“If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind.”
“I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.”
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