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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

He radiated the innocence that marks the absolute rejection of prudence.

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

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

go-go hall on my way home from school.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Stutter, stutter!

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

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.

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

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.

I want to make a poem of my life.

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

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

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

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

His emotion evident in the glitter of his eyes.

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

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

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

...living is merely the chaos of existence...

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

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

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

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.

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

Man does not live simply in order to die.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

If the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist

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

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

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

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

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

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