Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.
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Yukio Mishima
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Yukio Mishima quotes
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If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
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The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
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Question everything.
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Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
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Imagination means nothing without doing.
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Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.
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I dream my painting and I paint my dream.
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I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
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I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.
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The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.