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"I was feeling the urge to begin living. To begin living my true life? Even if it was to be pure masquerade and not my life at all, still the time had come when I must make a start, must drag my heavy feet forward."

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三島 由紀夫 (via jueki)

"To believe that one should be happy just to be alive, despite leading a hideous existence, is to think like a slave; to think that it is pleasant to have an ordinary and comfortable life…People squirm in agitation before a dark wall and dream about buying washing machines and television sets; they anxiously look to tomorrow, even though it will bring nothing."

— Yukio Mishima
(via awhiffofcavendish)

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"I’d like to be free. To tell the truth, I myself don’t know why I am acting as you say I do. When I see myself as a person without a will I feel desolate … I want to become something. I want a real existence."

— Yukio Mishima (Forbidden Colors). (via laurachase)

"The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel springs and, when we who live in the present touch them, they are suddenly stretched taut and then they propel us into the future."

— Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (via vintageanchorbooks)