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We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.
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
Kimitake Hiraoka
Hiraoka Kimitake
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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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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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His emotion evident in the glitter of his eyes.
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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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I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight.
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The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.
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Pain, I came to feel, might well prove to be the sole proof of the persistence of consciousness within the flesh, the sole physical expression of consciousness. As my body acquired muscle, and in turn strength, there was gradually born within me a tendency towards the positive acceptance of pain, and my interest in physical suffering deepened.
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Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength.
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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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Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it.
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For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.
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Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff.
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As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.
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Living is merely the chaos of existence.
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Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?
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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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A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality.
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