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“Mishima burnt his diaries and after his suicide people who had thought themselves closer to him realised that they had only known what he had allowed them to see. Mishima was a man of parts that added up to more than one whole.”

“Just as in English the same word - water - can describe a raindrop, or a lake, or an ocean. Every era has its own sumida” - the river which runs through Tokyo.

Pugnacious- quick to quarrel, fight and argue

“If you forget what hour it is, your life will be long”