“Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow, Korogi says. But that's one thing I'll never be able to outrun. Nobody can shake off their own shadow.”

— Haruki Murakami , book After Dark

Source: After Dark

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Japanese author, novelist 1949

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