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World Quotes by Yukio Mishima
- 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.
- if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist
- What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable…
- An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body,…
- When a captive lion steps out of his cage, he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While…
- Other people must be destroyed. In order that I might truly face the sun, the world itself must be destroyed....
- There's a huge seal called 'impossibility' pasted all over this world. And don't ever forget that we're the only ones who can tear it off…
- 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…
- ...of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.
- 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…
- When people concentrate on the idea of beauty, they are, without realizing it, confronted with the darkest thoughts that exist in this world. That, I…
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach