The beauty of the human body is beautiful precisely because we know it must perish.
言葉は言葉を呼び、その結果行為は永久に来ない。
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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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