“No matter how quiet and conformist a person’s life seems, there’s always a time in the past when they reached an impasse. A time when they went a little crazy. I guess people need that sort of stage in their lives.”
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
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Haruki Murakami 655
Japanese author, novelist 1949Related quotes

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