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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 Actor
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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...of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.
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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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Abruptly he thrust his snow-drenched leather gloves against my cheeks. I dodged. A raw carnal feeling blazed up within me, branding my cheeks. I felt myself staring at him with crystal clear eyes... From that time on I was in love with Omi.
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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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Within those confining walls, teachers - a bunch of men all armed with the same information - gave the same lectures every year from the same notebooks and every year at the same point in the textbooks made the same jokes.
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Other people must be destroyed. In order that I might truly face the sun, the world itself must be destroyed.
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a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a ‘function’, one cog in a machine.
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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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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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Human life is limited but I would like to live forever.
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Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter.
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Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
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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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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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The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority
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Quite possibly, what I call happiness may coincide with what others call the moment of imminent danger
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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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If the photographer is to create works that will stand for his spirit in the same way as artists in other genres, he must first - having no ready-made, abstract components such as works and sounds - supply other means to abstraction instead.
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