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Yukio Mishima

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True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.


— Yukio Mishima


#cruelty #love #beauty

Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.


— Yukio Mishima


#japanese-literature #classics

Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.


— Yukio Mishima


#beauty

We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise. In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back.


— Yukio Mishima


#thirst-for-love #yukio-mishima #love

And it seemed increasingly obvious that the world would have to topple if he was to attain the glory that was rightfully his. They were consubstantial: glory and the capsized world.


— Yukio Mishima


#dreams #glory #life #dreams

A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality.


— Yukio Mishima


#fathers #lies #parents #truth #family

This time, Fusako was able to express herself with fluency and candor. The bold letters she had been writing week after week had granted her an unexpected new freedom.


— Yukio Mishima


#dating #letter-writing #letters #love #relationships

However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins.


— Yukio Mishima


#words #art

For me, beauty is always retreating from one’s grasp: the only thing I consider important is what existed once, or ought to have existed.


— Yukio Mishima


#beauty

Human beings, Isao realized, could descend to communicating their feelings like dogs barking in the distance on a cold night.


— Yukio Mishima


#communication






About Yukio Mishima

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This trauma also provided material for the later story Shi o Kaku Shōnen (詩を書く少年? "The Boy Who Wrote Poetry") in 1954. However the writer Jiro Fukushima publiYukio Mishimad a revealing homosexual correspondence between himself and the famed novelist. Private life

In 1955 Mishima took up weight training and his workout regimen of three sessions per week was not disrupted for the final 15 years of his life.

He is also remembered for his ritual suicide by seppuku after a failed coup d'état. Mishima is considered one of the most important Japanese authors of the 20th century.

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