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“were we to have acted like frail women?”

that was peak

“the japanese sword, now giving way to the saber, had lost its soul. now it was fated to become a mere decoration, an ornament.”

instead of simply telling us of a fictional book that affected one of the main characters, mishima straight up wrote a separate book within a book…

“Honda remembered Kiyoaki’s dying words: ‘I’ll see you again. I know it. Beneath the falls.”

that time i got reincarnated as a Kendo master

“the realization that the earnest young tutor from the provinces had now become the father of a boy so mature forcibly reminded honda, childless as he was, of the years that had slipped by unnoticed.”

welcome back honda ☺️☺️ i didn’t know all four took course over the span of one lifetime, wonderful. right back into it.

“God is, even if He isn’t.”

“trees are massacred, houses go up—faces, faces everywhere. man is spreading. man is the cancer of earth.”

couldn’t have said it better myself mate

“the not at all negligible advantage of having greatly hated men is that one comes to endure them by the exhaustion of this very hatred.”

“for the victim it anxiety, there is no difference between success and fiasco. his reaction to one is the same as to the other: both trouble him equally.”

“to live in expectation, to count on the future or on a simulacrum of the future: we are so accustomed to it that we have conceived the idea of immortality only out of a need to wait out eternity.”

“gogol, in hopes of a ‘regeneration,’ journeys to nazareth and discovers he is as bored there as ‘in a russian railroad station’ — this is what happens to us all when we look outside ourselves for what can exist only inside.”

“a man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of his talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.”

twin!

“the same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever i go: i pretend interest in what matters is nothing to me, i bestir myself mechanically or out of charity, without ever being caught up, without ever being somewhere. what attracts me is elsewhere, and i don’t know what that elsewhere is.”

goodness

“life, a series of increasing sufferings, flies ever faster towards its end, the most terrible suffering. ‘i’m flying somewhere.’”

“and he felt a wave of agonizing, unbearable misery. it surely wasn’t possible that everybody everywhere should be condemned to this awful horror.”

“Although everything had one single message for him—be it every hour, every morning, every noon and night, or the sky, the trees, the clouds and wind all telling him to give her up—he was still tormented by uncertainty.”

what the fawk did i just read mate

so so so so good, just gets better and better and better, like tom cruise

“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? I’ve nothing in common with these ‘new women’. But… if eternity existed, it would be this moment.”

i love reading… ?