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True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

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Yukio Mishima
Age: 45 †
Born: 1925
Born: January 14
Died: 1970
Died: November 25
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Military Personnel
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City of Tokyo
Mishima Yukio
Kimitake Hiraoka
Hiraoka Kimitake
Attacks
Finally
Beauty
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Something
Overpowers
Robs
Destroys

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I cried sobbingly until at last those visions reeking with blood came to comfort me. And then I surrendered myself to them, to those deplorably brutal visions, my most intimate friends.
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I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight.
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Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it.
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