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Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result

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Yukio Mishima
Age: 45 †
Born: 1925
Born: January 14
Died: 1970
Died: November 25
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City of Tokyo
Mishima Yukio
Kimitake Hiraoka
Hiraoka Kimitake
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The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority
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Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.
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There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.
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According to Eshin's Essentials of Salvation, the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land.
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Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff.
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Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.
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Human life is limited but I would like to live forever.
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I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight.
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When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.
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It is a rather risky matter to discuss a happiness that has no need of words.
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For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.
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If the photographer is to create works that will stand for his spirit in the same way as artists in other genres, he must first - having no ready-made, abstract components such as works and sounds - supply other means to abstraction instead.
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Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room—a cry of boundless, dark, demanding grief pitch-black and glabrous as a whale's back and burdened with all the passions of the tides, the memory of voyages beyond counting, the joys, the humiliations: the sea was screaming.
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Let us remember that the central reality must be sought in the writer's work: it is what the writer chose to write, or was compelled to write, that finally matters. And certainly Mishima's carefully premeditated death is part of his work.
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Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.
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