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True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.
Yukio Mishima
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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
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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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Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it.
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An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body, I could defeat ugliness. A man isn’t tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.
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Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination.
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I seemed like a baby bird keeping its truly innocent animal lusts hidden under its wing. I was being tempted, not by the desire of possession, but simply by unadorned temptation itself.
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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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The mind, by its very nature, persistently tries to live forever, resisting age and attempting to give itself a form... . When a person passes his prime and his life begins to lose true vigor and charm, his mind starts functioning as if it were another form of life it imitates what life does, eventually doing what life cannot do.
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It is a rather risky matter to discuss a happiness that has no need of words.
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The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.
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Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
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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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The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids.
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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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For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.
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Living is merely the chaos of existence.
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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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a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a ‘function’, one cog in a machine.
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Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?
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