“Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one.
The pain is an anchor, mooring me”

—  Haruki Murakami , book Kafka on the Shore

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Japanese author, novelist 1949

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