“I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling. It was like the stillness of the pin oak after the little birds had flown off.”

—  Haruki Murakami, book A Wild Sheep Chase

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase

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Japanese author, novelist 1949

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