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Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this sense of sharing something.

Haruki Murakami

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Haruki Murakami
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 12
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Murakami Haruki
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