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The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.
Yukio Mishima
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Yukio Mishima
Age: 45 †
Born: 1925
Born: January 14
Died: 1970
Died: November 25
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When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.
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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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Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.
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True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.
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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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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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The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel springs and, when we who live in the present touch them, they are suddenly stretched taut and then they propel us into the future.
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