“You said that the mind is like the wind, but perhaps it is we who are like the wind. Knowing nothing, simply blowing through. Never aging, never dying”

— Haruki Murakami

Source: Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Chapter 16: The Coming of Winter

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Japanese author, novelist 1949

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