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Yukio Mishima
“The moment will come sometime—and that time is not too far off. And when it does—I can promise you right now—I shan't shrink from it. I've known supreme happiness, and I'm not greedy enough to want what I have to go on forever. Every dream ends. Wouldn't it be foolish, knowing that nothing lasts forever, to insist that one has a right to do something that does?”
Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

Yukio Mishima
“On the one hand, she was letting a rash caprice sweep her with appalling boldness into a course of action from which there would be no turning back. On the other, she was waiting for something to intervene. For the moment there was still time. There was still time. Up until the very last instant, a letter of pardon might come—or so she hoped. And then again, she despised the very thought of hope.”
Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

John Addington Symonds
“The agony of this struggle between self-yielding to desire and love, and self-scourging by a trained discipline of analytic reflection, breaks his nerve. The only exit for a soul thus plagued is suicide.”
John Addington Symonds

Yukio Mishima
“I know that I'm doing something terrible. But please don't say anything against it, because I do realize that it will come to an end sometime. But until then, I want to live each day as it comes. Because there's nothing else to be done.”
Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

Ryū Murakami
“Fashion is the silliest, vainest game there is, which is exactly why it's so much fun. Do you know what clothes and makeup are for? Why we put them on? It's simple: just to take them off, to have something to strip away in order to feel naked. Clothes are there to make other people think about what they can't see. But that, of course, is the great joke, because when you strip off the clothes and wash off all the makeup, what do you have? Zero, that's what. But then again, that's the fun of it, don't you think?”
Ryū Murakami, Coin Locker Babies

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