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“Kensuke and his wife had, like all bored people, a sense of kindness that was close to disease.”
― Yukio Mishima, Thirst for Love

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“A book is a suicide postponed.”
― Cioran

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“there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“God has to be a sadist to give people life.”
― Hitomi Kanehara, Snakes And Earrings

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“...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.”
― William Faulkner, Light in August

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Goodreads Viet Nam — 5341 members — last activity Feb 07, 2026 03:07AM
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A Reading Club for Vietnamese — 1902 members — last activity Jul 29, 2024 08:42AM
This is a public reading club intended for Vietnamese readers. Vietnamese is the primary language used for discussion or book recommendation, but En ...more