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“Everything, everything has passed. Not one hint of the former world, not one heartbeat of the feelings I had then. I feel as a ghost must feel who returns to the burned-out ruin of a mansion that, as a prince in his prime, he built and furnished with all the gifts of his splendor and dying, left in good hope...”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“...an unknown glory calling for him endlessly from the dark offing, glory merged in death and in a woman, glory to fashion of his destiny something special, something rare... he had been passionately certain: in the depths of the world's darkness was a point of light which had been provided for him alone and would draw near someday to irradicate him and no other.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea - Yukio Mishima