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Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #2)

by Seishi Yokomizo

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“Solving a problem for which you know there's an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid.”
― Yoko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor

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“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

tags: happiness, loneliness, melancholy, philosophy, psychology

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“In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the water.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Grotesque

tags: decay, grotesque, women

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“Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

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“A woman who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people’s evaluations. But no one can adapt perfectly to public opinion. And herein lies the source of their destruction.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Grotesque

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