Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey (p. 151)
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Once again, I was confused. It felt like bits of reality and unreality were randomly changing places.
— Haruki Murakami
What It Means
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Source: Wikiquote: "Haruki Murakami" (Quotes, First Person Singular (2021): Page numbers from the hardcover first English edition, published by Alfred A. Knopf, )
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About Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami (ζδΈ ζ₯ζ¨Ή Murakami Haruki, born 12 January 1949) is a best-selling contemporary Japanese writer. His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered critical acclaim and numerous awards, both in Japan and internationally, including the World Fantasy Award (2006) and the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award (2006), while his whole oeuvre garnered the Franz Kafka Prize (2006), the Jerusalem Prize (2009), and the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Prize (2016) among others.
About Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami (ζδΈ ζ₯ζ¨Ή Murakami Haruki, born 12 January 1949) is a best-selling contemporary Japanese writer. His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered critical acclaim and numerous awards, both in Japan and internationally, including the World Fantasy Award (2006) and the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award (2006), while his whole oeuvre garnered the Franz Kafka Prize (2006), the Jerusalem Prize (2009), and the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Prize (2016) among others.
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