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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
Actor
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Film Actor
Film Director
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Military Personnel
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Poet
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City of Tokyo
Mishima Yukio
Kimitake Hiraoka
Hiraoka Kimitake
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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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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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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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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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Living is merely the chaos of existence.
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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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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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The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.
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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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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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Quite possibly, what I call happiness may coincide with what others call the moment of imminent danger
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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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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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I cried sobbingly until at last those visions reeking with blood came to comfort me. And then I surrendered myself to them, to those deplorably brutal visions, my most intimate friends.
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Human life is limited but I would like to live forever.
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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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I want to make a poem of my life.
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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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