Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it? — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
History knew the truth. History was the most inhuman product of humanity.It scooped up the whole of human will and, like the… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
When people concentrate on the idea of beauty, they are, without realizing it, confronted with the darkest thoughts that exist in this… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
The images which the [press] photographer has filtered from reality, whether particular events or the anguish of human reactions to them, already… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
We tend to suffer from the illusion that we are capable of dying for a belief or theory. What Hagakure is insisting… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
The purest evil that human efforts could attain, in other words, was probably achieved by those men who made their wills the… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
When a captive lion steps out of his cage, he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds.… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share
Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room - a cry of boundless,… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share
The purest evil that human efforts could attain, in other words, was probably achieved by those men who made their wills the same and… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share
“Because in the pupils of his eyes there lingered the mysterious and eternal horizon that the sea leaves as a keepsake deep in the… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share
As usual, it occurred to me that words were the only thing that could possibly save me from this situation. This was a characteristic… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share
Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share
“Svoju patnju, koju prihvatam, moram da prihvatim kao dragocenost. Ne postoji nijedan ispirač zlata koji iskopava samo zlato. Ispirač vadi pesak sa korita reke,… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share
I am one who has always been interested only in the edges of the body and the spirit, the outlying regions of the body… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share
Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share
“Great cloud masses boiled up, immense in their quiet majesty. They seemed to drink up all the noise below, even the sound of the… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share
The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail. — Yukio Mishima Copy Share
It is a rather risky matter to discuss a happiness that has no need of words. — Yukio Mishima Copy Share
“Again, Saburo Tominaga once went to the Shirakawa Prefectural Office to cash his brother Morikuni’s bonus bond and, unwilling to touch paper currency defiled… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share
“To be strong and true had been the most important task he had set himself since early childhood. Once, as a boy, he had… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share
What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share
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