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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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Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love?
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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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..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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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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True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.
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As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.
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His emotion evident in the glitter of his eyes.
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The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast.
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Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.
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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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Human life is limited but I would like to live forever.
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I want to make a poem of my life.
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Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result
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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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We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.
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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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...of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.
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There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.
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When people concentrate on the idea of beauty, they are, without realizing it, confronted with the darkest thoughts that exist in this world. That, I suppose, is how human beings are made.
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