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I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight.
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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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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Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff.
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Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter.
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Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.
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Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
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He had never looked forward to the wisdom and other vaunted benefits of old age. Would he be able to die young—and if possible free of all pain? A graceful death—as a richly patterned kimono, thrown carelessly across a polished table, slides unobtrusively down into the darkness of the floor beneath. A death marked by elegance.
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The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can't have. Show me a man who fears being ordinary, and I'll show you a man who is not yet a man.
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It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.
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The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.
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Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.
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