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Words are a medium that reduces reality to abstraction for transmission to our reason, and in their power to corrode reality inevitably lurks the danger that the words will be corroded too.

— Yukio Mishima Sun and Steel (1968)

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My "act" has ended by becoming an integral part of my nature, I told myself. It's no longer an act.

Confessions of a Mask (1949)

Only through the group, I realised — through sharing the suffering of the group — could the body reach that height of existence that the individual alone could never attain.

Sun and Steel (1968)

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive the Truth.

Is there not one person among you who will rise with me now?

There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.

Confessions of a Mask (1949)

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