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Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the cavern.

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
Dropped
Fill
Inside
Came
Away
Nothing
Something
Cavern
Caverns

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