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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.

Yukio Mishima

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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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Novelist
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Poet
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City of Tokyo
Mishima Yukio
Kimitake Hiraoka
Hiraoka Kimitake
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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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I want to make a poem of my life.
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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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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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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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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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Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?
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If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity is necessary. To accomplish so resolute an action, you have to stake your life, giving no thought to personal gain or loss.
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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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...of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.
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The mind, by its very nature, persistently tries to live forever, resisting age and attempting to give itself a form... . When a person passes his prime and his life begins to lose true vigor and charm, his mind starts functioning as if it were another form of life it imitates what life does, eventually doing what life cannot do.
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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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There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.
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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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It is a rather risky matter to discuss a happiness that has no need of words.
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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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I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line.
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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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His emotion evident in the glitter of his eyes.
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