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It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.

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
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Learn
Experience
Anything
Book
Way

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