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The boy felt a consummate accord between himself and this opulence of nature that surrounded him. He inhaled deeply, and it was as though a part of the unseen something that constitutes nature had permeated the core of his being. Yukio Mishima, 'The Sound of Waves'

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My heart had never before been swayed, and at first glance, by such a deep and unexplainable grief, a grief moreover that was no part of my masquerade. Yukio Mishima, 'Confessions of a Mask'

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I little dreamed - since the sun had never been disassociated from the image of death - that it could ever confer on me a bodily blessing, even though it had, of course, long harboured images of radiant glory… Yukio Mishima, 'Sun and Steel'

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Words are a medium that reduces reality to abstraction for transmission to our reason, and in their power to corrode reality inevitably lurks the danger that the words themselves will be corroded too. Yukio Mishima, 'Sun and Steel'

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Of course, living is merely the chaos of existence, but more than that it's a crazy mixed-up business of dismantling existence instant by instant to the point where the original chaos is restored... Yukio Mishima, 'The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea'

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He heard the sound of waves striking the shore, and it was as though the surging of his young blood was keeping time with the movement of the sea's great tides. Yukio Mishima, 'The Sound of Waves' https://t.co/B3hHDorBCm

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"Same"... the so-called "anxiety of the age": men frightened by one another, every known principle violated, effort mocked, happiness denied, beauty defiled, honor dragged down - originates in this one incredible expression. Osamu Dazai, 'No Longer Human'

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Once the world has been transformed into something meaningful, some feel they can die without regret. Others feel that they exist in a world without meaning, so what's the point of living? But where do these two sets of feelings converge? Yukio Mishima, 'Life for Sale'

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Destruction. It lives only moment by moment, is unaffiliated with past or present and, most importantly, embodies the exquisite ephemerality of a firework. Yukio Mishima, 'Beautiful Star'

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...if we grant that human passion has the power to rise above all absurdity, how can it be argued that it does not have the power to rise above the absurdities of passion itself? Yukio Mishima, 'Confessions of a Mask' https://t.co/lCm0iRGnMf