“At the same time, my anxiety had turned into an anxiety quite lacking in anxiousness. And any anxiety that is not especially anxious is, in the end, an anxiety hardly worth mentioning.”

—  Haruki Murakami, book The Strange Library

Source: The Strange Library

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Japanese author, novelist 1949

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