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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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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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There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.
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I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight.
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Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it.
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The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.
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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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I want to make a poem of my life.
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True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.
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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 most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.
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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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Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?
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All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve this dilemma by writing plays and novels. The more I wrote, the more I realized mere words were not enough. So I found another form of expression.
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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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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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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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Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result
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Let us remember that the central reality must be sought in the writer's work: it is what the writer chose to write, or was compelled to write, that finally matters. And certainly Mishima's carefully premeditated death is part of his work.
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When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.
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