“A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will--over and over.”

—  Haruki Murakami, book Kafka on the Shore

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Japanese author, novelist 1949

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