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A man isn't tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.
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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Was I ignorant, then, when I was seventeen? I think not. I knew everything. A quarter-century's experience of life since then has added nothing to what I knew. The one difference is that at seventeen I had no 'realism'.
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Human life is limited but I would like to live forever.
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The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.
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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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True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.
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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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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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There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.
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We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise. In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back.
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History knew the truth. History was the most inhuman product of humanity.It scooped up the whole of human will and, like the goddess Kali in Calcutta, dripped blood from its mouth as it bit and crunched.
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As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.
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I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight.
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When people concentrate on the idea of beauty, they are, without realizing it, confronted with the darkest thoughts that exist in this world. That, I suppose, is how human beings are made.
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