“You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them.”

— Haruki Murakami, book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (2013)

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Japanese author, novelist 1949

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