“He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasn’t able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.”

— Haruki Murakami , book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

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