There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess. - Yukio Mishima

Existences and events occurring without any relationship to myself, occurring at places that not only appealed to my senses but were moreover denied to me — these, together with the people involved in them, constituted my definition of “tragic things.” It seemed that my grief at being eternally excluded was always transformed in my dreaming into grief for those persons and their ways of life, and that solely through my own grief I was trying to share in their existences.

…In the very simplicity of her desire to punish herself appeared egoism in its purest form. Never before had this woman who seemed to think only of herself experienced an egoism so immaculate.

Besides, like a man who knows he is dying, he felt a need to be equally tender to all.