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One Quotes by Yukio Mishima
- Isao had never felt that he might want to be a woman. He had never wished for anything else but to be a man, live…
- Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity latent…
- Was I ignorant, then, when I was seventeen? I think not. I knew everything. A quarter-century's experience of life since then has added nothing to…
- i still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line...
- a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a ‘function’, one cog…
- Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as…
- Time is what matters. As time goes by, you and I will be carried inexorably into the mainstream of our period, even though we’re unaware…
- I am one who has always been interested only in the edges of the body and the spirit, the outlying regions of the body and…
- Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.
- To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It makes their spirits…
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