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Human life is limited but I would like to live forever.
Yukio Mishima
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Yukio Mishima
Age: 45 †
Born: 1925
Born: January 14
Died: 1970
Died: November 25
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At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it. After that, there remains only the journey itself, which is nothing but the process through which we lose our ownership of it.
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When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.
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It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is to be a record or a testimony.
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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 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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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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...of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.
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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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Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination.
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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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..and certain that life consisted of a few simple signals and decisions that death took root at the moment of birth and man’s only recourse thereafter was to water and tend it that propagation was a fiction consequently, society was a fiction too that fathers and teachers, by virtue of being fathers and teachers, were guilty of a grievous sin.
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The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.
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As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.
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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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There's a huge seal called 'impossibility' pasted all over this world. And don't ever forget that we're the only ones who can tear it off once and for all.
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His emotion evident in the glitter of his eyes.
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