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What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.
Kazuo Ishiguro
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Kazuo Ishiguro
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 8
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Ishiguro Kazuo
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