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Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result
Yukio Mishima
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Yukio Mishima
Age: 45 †
Born: 1925
Born: January 14
Died: 1970
Died: November 25
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The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can't have. Show me a man who fears being ordinary, and I'll show you a man who is not yet a man.
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Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter.
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There's a huge seal called 'impossibility' pasted all over this world. And don't ever forget that we're the only ones who can tear it off once and for all.
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If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.
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