“Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a bit of difference. All that remains is a desert.”

— Haruki Murakami, book South of the Border, West of the Sun

Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

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Japanese author, novelist 1949

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