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True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

Yukio Mishima beauty cruelty love

What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at th…

Yukio Mishima The Temple of the Golden Pavilion knowledge stillness transformation

Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room - a cry of boundless, dark, demanding grief; pitch-black and glabrous as a whal…

Yukio Mishima The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the … books poetic

The only real flesh was the flesh that existed in his imagination. Since, therefore, he regarded the flesh as an ideal abstraction, rather than as a physical fact, he had relied on…

Yukio Mishima buddhism love lust spirituality

The Imperial Concubine was fully aware of her own beauty, and she tended to be attracted by any force, such as religion, that treated her beauty and her high rank as things of no v…

Yukio Mishima beauty spirituality

So young and so lethargic! As though he had been born to sit and stare like this. Ever since Kiyoaki had confided in him, Shigekuni, who would have been bright and confident, as be…

Yukio Mishima Spring Snow friendship introspection

A feeling of liberation should contain a bracing feeling of negation, in which liberation itself is not negated. In the moment a captive lion steps out of his cage, he possesses a …

Yukio Mishima Thirst for Love classics existence freedom japan japanese

Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.

Yukio Mishima Forbidden Colors beauty

Amid the moon and the stars, amid the clouds of the night, amid the hills which bordered on the sky with their magnificent silhouette of pointed cedars, amid the speckled patches o…

Yukio Mishima The Temple of the Golden Pavilion beauty moonlight night treachery

However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins.

Yukio Mishima Sun and Steel art words

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Unscramble YUKIO 5-letter words that start with Y 5-letter words that end in O 5-letter words containing UK 5-letter words containing IO 5-letter words with Y and U

Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day

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Hint 1 meaning

The old plural of Eye.

Hint 2 anagram

ENE

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