“"But there are times when being happy — just happy, nothing else — is simply vile."
"Why?" Jill inquired.
"Because," Enrique reasoned, "one cant be happy in a place where everybody is unhappy."”

Source: Detective Story (2008), p. 55.

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Hungarian writer 1929–2016

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