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Haruki Murakami Quotes

I decided to go swimming. I don’t know how to explain this, but I wanted to purge my body of something by exercising it to the limit. Purge it—of what? I spent some time wondering about that. Purge it of what?
I didn’t know.

Haruki Murakami

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