I have a sense of having just left without saying goodbye, and of this whole other world just kind of fading away. ... I have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one. (Kazuo Ishiguro)

I have a sense of having just left without saying goodbye, and of this whole other world just kind of fading away. ... I have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Kazuo Ishiguro

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