Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Mill…

Haruki Murakami
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Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? ✨ FaceBook post byHaruki Murakami from Aug 05, 2011
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Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? ✨ FaceBook post byHaruki Murakami from Aug 05, 2011

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