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The unwaking world was as hushed as a deep forest.
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Haruki Murakami
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 12
Athletics Competitor
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Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
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Kyōto
Murakami Haruki
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Of course you got rights, the law's on your side, but sometimes the law takes a long time to kick in and so it gets put in the hands of us poor suckers on duty. You get my drift?
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This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world.
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He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasn’t able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.
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Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about.
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