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I want to make a poem of my life.
Yukio Mishima
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Yukio Mishima
Age: 45 †
Born: 1925
Born: January 14
Died: 1970
Died: November 25
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City of Tokyo
Mishima Yukio
Kimitake Hiraoka
Hiraoka Kimitake
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As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.
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The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.
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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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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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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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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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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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Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
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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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When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.
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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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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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Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.
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True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.
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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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Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result
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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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