“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002)
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Variant translations: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Variant: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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