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Natsuo Kirino
Natsuo Kirino

A renowned contemporary Japanese novelist, born on October 7, 1951. Her works are known for their unique narrative style and profound social insight, with notable titles including 'The Devotion of Suspect X'. more

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“Minds are like swords, I do fear. The old ones go to rust.”

“They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.”

“Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight and starlight, sunrise and mist and mossy forest trails, the perfumes of dawn and the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees.”