“Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking free of the world of reality. Rain has the power to hypnotize.”
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
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Haruki Murakami 655
Japanese author, novelist 1949Related quotes

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