“This person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go somewhere else. I was nothing but a pathway for the person known as me.”

— Haruki Murakami , book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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