Yukio Mishima (Narrator) Quotes in Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)

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Yukio Mishima (Narrator) Quotes:

  • Yukio Mishima (Narrator): The average age for a man in the Bronze Age was eighteen, in the Roman era, twenty-two. Heaven must have been beautiful then. Today it must look dreadful. When a man reaches forty, he has no chance to die beautifully. No matter how he tries, he will die of decay. He must compel himself to live.

  • Yukio Mishima (Narrator): I wanted to explode, light the sky for an instant and disappear.

  • Yukio Mishima (Narrator): All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve this dilemma by writing plays and novels. The more I wrote, the more I realized mere words were not enough. So I found another form of expression.

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    Yukio Mishima (Narrator): The instant the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up behind his eyelids and exploded lighting the sky for an instant.

  • Yukio Mishima (Narrator): My need to transform reality was an urgent necessity, as important as three meals a day or sleep.

  • Yukio Mishima (Narrator): Men wear masks to make themselves beautiful. But unlike a woman's, a man's determination to become beautiful is always a desire for death.

  • Yukio Mishima (Narrator): Creating something beautiful and becoming beautiful oneself are indistinguishable.

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