“Only a shipwrecked person who has just escaped drowning could understand the psychology of someone who breaks out in laughter just because he is able to breathe.”

Part 3, Ch. 31
The Woman in the Dunes (1962)

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Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor 1924–1993

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