“I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.”

—  Haruki Murakami, book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84 (2009-2010)

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