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When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.
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
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Other people must be destroyed. In order that I might truly face the sun, the world itself must be destroyed.
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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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There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.
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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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We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.
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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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Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?
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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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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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