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ながねん
長年
あいだ
わたし
だけ
じんせい
人生
いぎ
意義
あた
えてくれる
ものでありこのごみごみした
ちじょう
地上
つぎつぎ
次々
がれる
せだい
世代
せられる
ゆいいつ
唯一
もくてき
目的
ときどき
時々
げいじゅつか
芸術家
こと
おも
っていた

For many years I thought that it was beauty alone that gave significance to life and that the only purpose that could be assigned to the generations that succeed one another on the face of this crowded earth was to produce an artist now and then.
Grammar and points of interest
Conjugations and inflections
Words
0
adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi), noun (temporal) (jisoumeishi)
long time; many years
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0
noun
1. space (between); gap; interval; distance; stretch
noun, adverb
2. period of time (during, while); duration; interval
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0
1. I; me
2. private affairs; personal matter; secrecy  (this meaning is restricted to reading わたくし)
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1
noun, noun (suffix)
beauty
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particle
1. only; just; merely; simply; no more than; nothing but; alone  (see also: しか; often written with kana only)
2. as (e.g. as soon as, as much as)  (often written with kana only)
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1
noun
(human) life (i.e. conception to death)
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1
noun
meaning; significance
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0
ichidan verb, transitive verb
1. to give (esp. to someone of lower status); to bestow; to grant; to confer; to present; to award
2. to provide; to afford; to offer; to supply
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noun
1. thing; object; article; stuff; substance
2. one's things; possessions; property; belongings  (as 〜のもの, 〜のもん)
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3
be; is  (see also: , であります; formal or literary copula)
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1
squalid; messy  (onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
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0
1. above ground; surface
2. earth; world
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2
in succession; one by one
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3
'gu' godan verb, transitive verb
to take over; to hand over
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1 0
generation; the world; the age
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1
noun, noun (suffix)
1. lesson
2. section (in an organization); division; department
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1
only; sole; unique
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0
noun
purpose; goal; aim; objective; intention
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0
sometimes; at times
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0
noun
artist
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3
Most common form: 生みだす
'su' godan verb, transitive verb
1. to create; to bring forth; to produce
2. to invent; to think up and bring into being
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2
noun
1. thing; matter  (often written with kana only)
2. incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis  (often written with kana only)
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2
'u' godan verb, transitive verb
1. to think; to consider; to believe  (想う has connotations of heart-felt)
2. to think (of doing); to plan (to do)
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Kanji
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チョウ   なが long   
ネン   とし year   
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カン   ケン   あいだ interval, between   ま space, room   
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シ   わたくし    わたし I, myself   
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ビ   うつくしい beautiful   
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ジン   ニン   ひと person   
セイ   ショウ    life   なま raw   いかす to enliven   いきる to live   いける to arrange flowers   うまれる to be born   う to give birth to   き pure, undiluted   お to grow, to sprout   はえる to grow, to sprout   はやす to grow, cultivate   
イ    idea   
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ギ    honour   
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ヨ   あたえる to grant, give, bestow   
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チ   ジ    ground   
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ジョウ   ショウ   うえ above   うわ- above   あげる to raise   あがる to rise   かみ first half, upper part   のぼ to climb   のぼせる to bring up, to raise   のぼ to bring up   
ジ   シ   つぎ next   つ to come after   
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(kanji repetition symbol)   
イン   ひ to pull   ひける to be over   
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ケイ   つ to follow, succeed to, inherit   
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セ   セイ   よ the world   
タイ   ダイ   かえる to replace, to exchange   かわる to be exchanged   よ the world   しろ substitute   
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カ    lesson; section   
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ユイ   イ    only   
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イチ   イツ   ひと    ひと- one   
ボク   モク   eye   ま-    め    
テキ   まと target   
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ジ   とき time, occasion   
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ゲイ    technique   
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ジュツ    technique   
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カ   ケ   house   いえ    や    
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シュツ   スイ   だ to take out, to put out   で to go out, to exit   
シ   おも to think   
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