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For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

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Yukio Mishima
Age: 45 †
Born: 1925
Born: January 14
Died: 1970
Died: November 25
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Film Director
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Military Personnel
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City of Tokyo
Mishima Yukio
Kimitake Hiraoka
Hiraoka Kimitake
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Human life is limited but I would like to live forever.
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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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We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.
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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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Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
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if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist
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A man isn't tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.
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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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The images which the [press] photographer has filtered from reality, whether particular events or the anguish of human reactions to them, already bear a stamp of authenticity which the photographer is powerless to alter by one jot or tittle the meaning of the objects, by a process of purification, itself becomes the theme of the work.
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According to Eshin's Essentials of Salvation, the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land.
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We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise. In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back.
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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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I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight.
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If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.
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His emotion evident in the glitter of his eyes.
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It is a rather risky matter to discuss a happiness that has no need of words.
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Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.
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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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Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.
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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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