“Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it.”

— Haruki Murakami, book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

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Japanese author, novelist 1949

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