Existences and events occurring without any relationship to myself, occurring at places that not only appealed to my senses but were moreover denied … - Yukio Mishima

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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.