Haruki Murakami Quotes

Why do people have to build such depressing places? I'm not saying that every nook and cranny of the world has to be beautiful, but does it have to be this ugly?

Haruki Murakami

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• Why do people have to build such depressing places? I'm not saying that every nook and cranny of the world has to be beautiful, but does it have to be this ugly?

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Beautiful
  • Build
  • Depressing