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Everything in life is a metaphor.

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
Metaphor
Everything
Life

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Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.
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In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster.
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