No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes.…

Haruki Murakami
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No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i'll come to defining myself.
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It's like a kid standing at the window watching the rain. ✨ Haruki Murakami (1993). Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel, Vintage

No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i'll come to defining myself.

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