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Just now I had a dream. I'll see you again. I know it. Beneath the falls. — Yukio Mishima

The parting, like the white fruit of an apple discolouring instantly around the bite, had begun three days before when they had met aboard the Rakuyo. — Yukio Mishima

To Ryuji the smile seemed as brittle as fine glass crystal and very dangerous — Yukio Mishima

For even in the triviality of a single playing card missing from a deck, the world's order is inevitably turned awry. — Yukio Mishima

Human beings, Isao realized, could descend to communicating their feelings like dogs barking in the distance on a cold night. — Yukio Mishima

He was a ship loaded down with a full cargo of emotion, riding low in the dark winter sea of death. Isao — Yukio Mishima

Of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant. — Yukio Mishima

Life is like swordplay. Grip it, hold it tightly, then make your move. — Louis Edward Rosas

We human beings sometimes steer off in a direction in which we hope to find something a little bit better. — Yukio Mishima

Honor knows no birthright. — Louis Edward Rosas

The path we're taking is not a road, Kiyo, it's a pier, and it ends someplace where the sea begins. It can't be helped. — Yukio Mishima

Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result — Yukio Mishima

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys. — Yukio Mishima

In his heart, he always preferred the actuality of loss to the fear of it. — Yukio Mishima

Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it. — Yukio Mishima

Not to mention the fact that seppuku is the aristocracy of suicide. And I'm not saying that just because my parents called me Mishima. — Jean Teule

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. — Yukio Mishima

Thus in a single phrase I can define the great illusion concerning 'love' in this world. It is the effort to join reality with the apparition. — Yukio Mishima

Most writers are perfectly normal in the head and just carry on like wild men; I behave normally but I'm sick inside. — Yukio Mishima

I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight. — Yukio Mishima

He radiated the innocence that marks the absolute rejection of prudence. — Yukio Mishima

It is a rather risky matter to discuss a happiness that has no need of words. — Yukio Mishima

A person who has been seriously wounded does not demand that the bandages that save his life be clean. — Yukio Mishima

...living is merely the chaos of existence... — Yukio Mishima

For me, beauty is always retreating from one's grasp: the only thing I consider important is what existed once, or ought to have existed. — Yukio Mishima

For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other. — Yukio Mishima

Otaguro's bosom heaved with an ineffable surge of joy. "Every man is fighting," he murmured. "Every man. — Yukio Mishima

The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids. — Yukio Mishima

The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast. — Yukio Mishima

Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it. — Yukio Mishima

go-go hall on my way home from school. — Yukio Mishima

He was like a husband so jealous that he insists his wife have the very dreams he has. — Yukio Mishima

As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring. — Yukio Mishima

When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning. — Yukio Mishima

Prudery is a form of selfishness, a means of self-protection made necessary by the strength of one's own desires. — Yukio Mishima

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. — Yukio Mishima

He felt that taking naps was much more beneficial than confronting catastrophes. — Yukio Mishima

No human being can be so honest as to become completely false. — Yukio Mishima

His emotion evident in the glitter of his eyes. — Yukio Mishima

The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority — Yukio Mishima

The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail. — Yukio Mishima

But this girl simply let my hands gather on her own small, plump hands, like flies gathering on someone who is taking a nap. — Yukio Mishima

There's the matter of picking the time. There's such a thing as the favorable moment. Determination alone counts for nothing. — Yukio Mishima

Only knowledge can turn life's unbearableness into a weapon. — Yukio Mishima

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. — Yukio Mishima

Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination. — Yukio Mishima

There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might even be the most immoral desire a man can possess. — Yukio Mishima

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. — Yukio Mishima

Stutter, stutter! — Yukio Mishima

I was born with gloomy nature. I do not think I have ever known what it is to be cheerful and at ease. — Yukio Mishima

Still, the loss of something is significant, and I think that loss is the necessary source of a new manifestation. — Yukio Mishima

I want to make a poem of my life. — Yukio Mishima

If the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist — Yukio Mishima

All six of us are geniuses. And the world, as you know, is empty. — Yukio Mishima

Beauty is not symmetry of parts- that's so impotent -as Mishima says, beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, & finally destroys ... — John Geddes

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood. — Yukio Mishima

Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter. — Yukio Mishima

We live in an age in which there is no heroic death. — Yukio Mishima

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

Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth. — Yukio Mishima

Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth. — Yukio Mishima

Still immersed in his dream, he drank down the tepid tea. It tasted bitter. Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff. — Yukio Mishima

Other people must be destroyed. In order that I might truly face the sun, the world itself must be destroyed ... — Yukio Mishima

It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied. — Yukio Mishima

Those words of my friend were like fertilizer poured over the poisonous weed of an idea deeply planted in me. — Yukio Mishima

I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line ... — Yukio Mishima

Somehow looked forward to death impatiently, with a sweet expectation. — Yukio Mishima

I come out on the stage expecting the audience to weep, and instead they burst out laughing. — Yukio Mishima

Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength. — Yukio Mishima

A man may be hard to persuade by rational argument while he is easily swayed by a display of passion, even if it is feigned. — Yukio Mishima

We all know that the world is empty and that the important thing, the only thing, is to try to maintain order in that emptiness. — Yukio Mishima

The measure of a woman's power is the degree of suffering with which she can punish her lover. — Yukio Mishima

Kensuke and his wife had, like all bored people, a sense of kindness that was close to disease. — Yukio Mishima

Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one's own heart. — Yukio Mishima

The perfectly ordinary girl and the great philosopher are alike: for both, the smallest triviality can become the vision that wipes out the world. — Yukio Mishima

The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled. — Yukio Mishima

Everybody's the same. People are all the same. But it's the prerogative of youth to think it's not so. — Yukio Mishima

Ever since then violent anticipation has always been an anguish rather than joy for me. — Yukio Mishima

Man does not live simply in order to die. — Yukio Mishima

Quite possibly, what I call happiness may coincide with what others call the moment of imminent danger — Yukio Mishima

You're not human. You're a being who is incapable of social intercourse. You're nothing but a creature, non-human and somehow strangely pathetic. — Yukio Mishima

Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed? — Yukio Mishima

Let the darkness that is in my heart become equal to the darkness of the night that surrounds those innumerable lights! — Yukio Mishima

Human life is limited but I would like to live forever. — Yukio Mishima