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“Most writers are perfectly normal in the head and just carry on like wild men; I behave normally but I'm sick inside.”
― Yukio Mishima

“For me, beauty is always retreating from one's grasp: the only thing I consider important is what existed once, or ought to have existed. By its subtle, infinitely varied operation, the steel restored the classical balance that the body had begun to lose, reinstating it in its natural form, the form that it should have had all along.”
― Yukio Mishima, Sun & Steel

“I come out on the stage expecting the audience to weep, and instead they burst out laughing.”
― Yukio Mishima

“It struck me then, for the first time, how unethical anxiety is, how it voids the reality of other people by conscripting them as palliatives for your own fear.”
― Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone