"An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft……" — Yukio Mishima
"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, I could defeat ugliness. A man isn’t tiny or giant enough to defeat anything."
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Yukio Mishima
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