A beautiful death is never within our grasp.
行為の中にしか生はない。
Writers & Literary Figures
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
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.
The difference between infinity and eternity lies in that one is a matter of quantity, and the other a matter of quality.
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