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Quite possibly, what I call happiness may coincide with what others call the moment of imminent danger
Yukio Mishima
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Yukio Mishima
Age: 45 †
Born: 1925
Born: January 14
Died: 1970
Died: November 25
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The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids.
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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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