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From Quotes by Yukio Mishima
- We tend to suffer from the illusion that we are capable of dying for a belief or theory. What Hagakure is insisting is that even…
- He was in a room of the Gesshuuji, which he had thought it would be impossible to visit. The approach of death had made the…
- Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result
- Abruptly he thrust his snow-drenched leather gloves against my cheeks. I dodged. A raw carnal feeling blazed up within me, branding my cheeks. I felt…
- Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch,…
- What I wanted was to die among strangers, untroubled, beneath a cloudless sky. And yet my desire differed from the sentiments of that ancient Greek…
- Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room - a cry of boundless, dark,…
- As usual, it occurred to me that words were the only thing that could possibly save me from this situation. This was a characteristic misunderstanding…
- Real danger is nothing more than just living. Of course, living is merely the chaos of existence, but more than that it's a crazy mixed-up…
- History knew the truth. History was the most inhuman product of humanity.It scooped up the whole of human will and, like the goddess Kali in…
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