“Listen, every object's in flux. The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith, justice, evil-they're all fluid and in transition. They don't stay in one form or in one place forever. The whole universe is like some big FedEx box.”

—  Haruki Murakami , book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002), Chapter 30, Colonel Sanders

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