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“If the world changed, I could not exist, and if I changed, the world could not exist”
― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

“There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

“He felt that taking naps was much more beneficial than confronting catastrophes.”
― Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

“Still immersed in his dream, he drank down the tepid tea. It tasted bitter. Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

“The living and the dead,
The awake and the sleeping,
The young and the old are all one and the same.
When the ones change, they become the others.
When those shift again, they become these again.

God is day and night.
God is winter and summer.
God is war and peace.
God is fertility and famine.
He transforms into many things.

Day and night are one.
Goodness and badness are one.
The beginning and the end of a circle are one.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of Dawn

“History knew the truth. History was the most inhuman product of humanity. It scooped up the whole of human will and, like the goddess Kali in Calcutta, dripped blood from its mouth as it bit and crunched.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Decay of the Angel

“In his heart, he always preferred the actuality of loss to the fear of it.”
― Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

“No human being can be so honest as to become completely false.”
― Yukio Mishima

“I want to make a poem of my life.”
― Yukio Mishima

“There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might even be the most immoral desire a man can possess.”
― Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask

“Separation is painful, but so is its opposite. And if being together brings joy, then it is only proper that separation should do the same in its own way.”
― Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

“Kensuke and his wife had, like all bored people, a sense of kindness that was close to disease.”
― Yukio Mishima, Thirst for Love

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
― Jack Kerouac

“I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Will you love me in December as you do in May?”
― Jack Kerouac

“It all ends in tears anyway.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“My witness is the empty sky.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.”
― Kerouac, Jack

“Pain or love or danger makes you real again....”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Don't touch me, I'm full of snakes.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars. ”
― Jack Kerouac, Selected Letters, 1940-1956

“As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk”
― Jack Kerouac

“If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“The beauty of things must be that they end.”
― Jack Kerouac, Tristessa