“You know what it’s like when you’re trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?”
Source: The Elephant Vanishes
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Haruki Murakami 655
Japanese author, novelist 1949Related quotes

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No source in Hemingway's works has been found. May have originated in a 2000 post to the Usenet group alt.support.depression. link https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/alt.support.depression/wYH4aCNHyp4/_d50yuXTeHsJ
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