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Yukio Mishima quotes: Just now I had a dream. I'll see you again. I know it. Beneath the falls. Just now I had a dream. I'll see you again. I know it. Beneath the falls.
Yukio Mishima quotes: 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. 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 quotes: To Ryuji the smile seemed as brittle as fine glass crystal and very dangerous To Ryuji the smile seemed as brittle as fine glass crystal and very dangerous
Yukio Mishima quotes: For even in the triviality of a single playing card missing from a deck, the world's order is inevitably turned awry. For even in the triviality of a single playing card missing from a deck, the world's order is inevitably turned awry.
Yukio Mishima quotes: Human beings, Isao realized, could descend to communicating their feelings like dogs barking in the distance on a cold night. Human beings, Isao realized, could descend to communicating their feelings like dogs barking in the distance on a cold night.
Yukio Mishima quotes: He was a ship loaded down with a full cargo of emotion, riding low in the dark winter sea of death. Isao He was a ship loaded down with a full cargo of emotion, riding low in the dark winter sea of death. Isao
Yukio Mishima quotes: Of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant. Of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.
Yukio Mishima quotes: We human beings sometimes steer off in a direction in which we hope to find something a little bit better. We human beings sometimes steer off in a direction in which we hope to find something a little bit better.
Yukio Mishima quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result
Yukio Mishima quotes: True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys. True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.
Yukio Mishima quotes: In his heart, he always preferred the actuality of loss to the fear of it. In his heart, he always preferred the actuality of loss to the fear of it.
Yukio Mishima quotes: Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it. Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
Yukio Mishima quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Most writers are perfectly normal in the head and just carry on like wild men; I behave normally but I'm sick inside. 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 quotes: I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight. I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight.
Yukio Mishima quotes: He radiated the innocence that marks the absolute rejection of prudence. He radiated the innocence that marks the absolute rejection of prudence.
Yukio Mishima quotes: Prudery is a form of selfishness, a means of self-protection made necessary by the strength of one's own desires. Prudery is a form of selfishness, a means of self-protection made necessary by the strength of one's own desires.
Yukio Mishima quotes: Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it. Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it.
Yukio Mishima quotes: go-go hall on my way home from school. go-go hall on my way home from school.
Yukio Mishima quotes: He was like a husband so jealous that he insists his wife have the very dreams he has. He was like a husband so jealous that he insists his wife have the very dreams he has.
Yukio Mishima quotes: As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring. As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.
Yukio Mishima quotes: When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning. When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.
Yukio Mishima quotes: 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. 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 quotes: It is a rather risky matter to discuss a happiness that has no need of words. It is a rather risky matter to discuss a happiness that has no need of words.
Yukio Mishima quotes: Still, the loss of something is significant, and I think that loss is the necessary source of a new manifestation. Still, the loss of something is significant, and I think that loss is the necessary source of a new manifestation.
Yukio Mishima quotes: Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength. Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength.
Yukio Mishima quotes: Human life is limited but I would like to live forever. Human life is limited but I would like to live forever.
Yukio Mishima quotes: Let the darkness that is in my heart become equal to the darkness of the night that surrounds those innumerable lights! Let the darkness that is in my heart become equal to the darkness of the night that surrounds those innumerable lights!
Yukio Mishima quotes: 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. 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 quotes: There's the matter of picking the time. There's such a thing as the favorable moment. Determination alone counts for nothing. There's the matter of picking the time. There's such a thing as the favorable moment. Determination alone counts for nothing.
Yukio Mishima quotes: The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast. The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast.
Yukio Mishima quotes: But this girl simply let my hands gather on her own small, plump hands, like flies gathering on someone who is taking a nap. 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 quotes: Stutter, stutter! Stutter, stutter!
Yukio Mishima quotes: Only knowledge can turn life's unbearableness into a weapon. Only knowledge can turn life's unbearableness into a weapon.
Yukio Mishima quotes: 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. 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 quotes: For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other. For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.
Yukio Mishima quotes: 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. 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 quotes: I want to make a poem of my life. I want to make a poem of my life.
Yukio Mishima quotes: The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail. The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.
Yukio Mishima quotes: A person who has been seriously wounded does not demand that the bandages that save his life be clean. A person who has been seriously wounded does not demand that the bandages that save his life be clean.
Yukio Mishima quotes: He felt that taking naps was much more beneficial than confronting catastrophes. He felt that taking naps was much more beneficial than confronting catastrophes.
Yukio Mishima quotes: No human being can be so honest as to become completely false. No human being can be so honest as to become completely false.
Yukio Mishima quotes: His emotion evident in the glitter of his eyes. His emotion evident in the glitter of his eyes.
Yukio Mishima quotes: There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might even be the most immoral desire a man can possess. There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might even be the most immoral desire a man can possess.
Yukio Mishima quotes: The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled. The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.
Yukio Mishima quotes: For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom. 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 quotes: We live in an age in which there is no heroic death. We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.
Yukio Mishima quotes: Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter. Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter.
Yukio Mishima quotes: Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood. Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.
Yukio Mishima quotes: All six of us are geniuses. And the world, as you know, is empty. All six of us are geniuses. And the world, as you know, is empty.
Yukio Mishima quotes: Still immersed in his dream, he drank down the tepid tea. It tasted bitter. Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff. Still immersed in his dream, he drank down the tepid tea. It tasted bitter. Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff.
Yukio Mishima quotes: I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line ... I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line ...
Yukio Mishima quotes: Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one's own heart. Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one's own heart.
Yukio Mishima quotes: Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth. Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.
Yukio Mishima quotes: Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed? Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?
Yukio Mishima quotes: The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids. The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids.
Yukio Mishima quotes: Otaguro's bosom heaved with an ineffable surge of joy. "Every man is fighting," he murmured. "Every man. Otaguro's bosom heaved with an ineffable surge of joy. "Every man is fighting," he murmured. "Every man.
Yukio Mishima quotes: ...living is merely the chaos of existence... ...living is merely the chaos of existence...
Yukio Mishima quotes: The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority
Yukio Mishima quotes: Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination. Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination.
Yukio Mishima quotes: I was born with gloomy nature. I do not think I have ever known what it is to be cheerful and at ease. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Quite possibly, what I call happiness may coincide with what others call the moment of imminent danger Quite possibly, what I call happiness may coincide with what others call the moment of imminent danger
Yukio Mishima quotes: Man does not live simply in order to die. Man does not live simply in order to die.
Yukio Mishima quotes: Ever since then violent anticipation has always been an anguish rather than joy for me. Ever since then violent anticipation has always been an anguish rather than joy for me.
Yukio Mishima quotes: Everybody's the same. People are all the same. But it's the prerogative of youth to think it's not so. Everybody's the same. People are all the same. But it's the prerogative of youth to think it's not so.
Yukio Mishima quotes: The perfectly ordinary girl and the great philosopher are alike: for both, the smallest triviality can become the vision that wipes out the world. 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 quotes: Kensuke and his wife had, like all bored people, a sense of kindness that was close to disease. Kensuke and his wife had, like all bored people, a sense of kindness that was close to disease.
Yukio Mishima quotes: The measure of a woman's power is the degree of suffering with which she can punish her lover. The measure of a woman's power is the degree of suffering with which she can punish her lover.
Yukio Mishima quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: If the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist If the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist
Yukio Mishima quotes: I come out on the stage expecting the audience to weep, and instead they burst out laughing. I come out on the stage expecting the audience to weep, and instead they burst out laughing.
Yukio Mishima quotes: Somehow looked forward to death impatiently, with a sweet expectation. Somehow looked forward to death impatiently, with a sweet expectation.
Yukio Mishima quotes: Those words of my friend were like fertilizer poured over the poisonous weed of an idea deeply planted in me. Those words of my friend were like fertilizer poured over the poisonous weed of an idea deeply planted in me.
Yukio Mishima quotes: It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied. 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 quotes: Other people must be destroyed. In order that I might truly face the sun, the world itself must be destroyed ... Other people must be destroyed. In order that I might truly face the sun, the world itself must be destroyed ...
Yukio Mishima quotes: Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth. Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.

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