A beautiful death is never within our grasp.

行為の中にしか生はない。

Yukio Mishima

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Yukio Mishima

Mishima Yukio (1925-1970) was a Japanese novelist, playwright, and nationalist whose extraordinary body of work - including 'The Temple of the Golden Pavilion' and the Sea of Fertility tetralogy - earned multiple Nobel Prize nominations. His ritual suicide by seppuku after a failed coup attempt remains one of the most dramatic deaths in literary history.

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Yukio Mishima's Other Quotes

無限と永遠の差は、一方が量であり、一方が質であるという点にある。

There is no such thing as a perfect sentence. Just as there is no such thing as perfect despair.

The beauty of the human body is beautiful precisely because we know it must perish.

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