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Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything's possible when it comes to love.

Haruki Murakami

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Haruki Murakami
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 12
Athletics Competitor
Essayist
Linguist
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
Kyōto
Murakami Haruki
World
Rebuild
Possible
Comes
Everything
Love

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