“Weakness is something that rots in the body. Like gangrene. I’ve felt that ever since I was a teenager. That’s why I was always on edge. There’s this something inside you that’s rotting away and you feel it all along.”
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 40, The Rat Who Wound the Clock
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Haruki Murakami 655
Japanese author, novelist 1949Related quotes
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