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"I knew intuitively and certainly that
Omi had seen the way I looked at him in that instant, had felt the pulsating force that flowed like lightning between our fingertips, and had guessed my secret - that I was in love with him, with no one in the world but him."

"I had a presentiment then that there is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain."

Yukio Mishima's writing style is very difficult to read through, yet beautiful. Thus my fifth attempt at starting a Mishima novel without giving up on reading it.

"Because the fact of not being understood by other people had become my only real source of pride, I was never confronted by any impulse to express things and to make others understand something that I knew."

mishima's writing is challenging but beautiful so i hope i don't struggle too much with this book

'Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.

The drowning girl's fingers
Search for the entrance stone, and more.
Lifting the hem of her azure dress,
She gazes -
At Kafka on the shore.

"Gays, lesbians, straights, feminists, fascist pigs, communists, Hare Krishnas - none of those bother me. I don't care what banner they raise. But what I can't stand are hollow people."

i'm such a slow reader bro

i stay noided

murakami is writing queer literature now?

gay?