I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.
 Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1997). copy citation

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Author Haruki Murakami
Source The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Topic hope living
Date 1997
Language English
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Note Translated by Jay Rubin
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