“Some dreams are best not to wake up from.”

—  Hiroo Onoda

Attributed by Judit Kawaguchi, "Words to Live By: Hiroo Onoda" https://archive.is/20120720155407/search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20070116jk.html, The Japan Times, 16 January 2007

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