“In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.”

— Haruki Murakami , book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002)

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