Alice

“[A] nation must ravage itself before foreigners can ravage it, a man must despise himself before others can despise him.”
― Yukio Mishima, Runaway Horses

“There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

“Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes

“The baby understands that its mother loves it. [...] Words have their origin in baby talk, so words have their origin in love.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, First Snow on Fuji