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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

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

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

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

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

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

I want to make a poem of my life. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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