“How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!”
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“I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.”
— Haruki Murakami, book A Wild Sheep Chase
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase
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