Yukio Mishima Quotes



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“Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.”

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“The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can't have.

Show me a man who fears being ordinary, and I'll show you a man who is not yet a man.”

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“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.”

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“When a captive lion steps out of his cage, he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While he was in captivity, there were only two worlds for him – the world of the cage, and the world outside the cage.

Now he is free. He roars. He attacks people. He eats them. Yet he is not satisfied, for there is no third world that is neither the world of the cage nor the world outside the cage.”

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“When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.”

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