True pain can only come gradually. It is exactly like tuberculosis in that the disease has already progressed to a critical stage before the patient … - Yukio Mishima

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

‘The human body is the work of art. It doesn’t need artists.’ But the artist replies: ‘Okay, let’s say you’re right. What good does your sweating and grunting do. Even the most beautiful body is destroyed by age. Where is beauty then? Only art makes human beauty endure. You must devise an artist’s scheme to preserve it. You must commit suicide at the height of your beauty.’~ w:Kyoko no Ie

The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.