I want to make a poem of my life.

Living is merely the chaos of existence.

Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff.

His emotion evident in the glitter of his eyes.

A man isn't tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.

We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.

Human life is limited but I would like to live forever.

Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.

I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight.

As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.

Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result

The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.

Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.

It is a rather risky matter to discuss a happiness that has no need of words.

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.

The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.

When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.

...of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.

if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist

There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.

For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.

I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line.

The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast.

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

Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?

Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination.

Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?

Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it.

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

Quite possibly, what I call happiness may coincide with what others call the moment of imminent danger

The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority

Other people must be destroyed. In order that I might truly face the sun, the world itself must be destroyed.

It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.

The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids.

Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.

Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter.

If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.

Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength.

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

According to Eshin's Essentials of Salvation, the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land.

It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is to be a record or a testimony.

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.

At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.

a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a ‘function’, one cog in a machine.

There's a huge seal called 'impossibility' pasted all over this world. And don't ever forget that we're the only ones who can tear it off once and for all.

A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality.

We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise. In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back.

I cried sobbingly until at last those visions reeking with blood came to comfort me. And then I surrendered myself to them, to those deplorably brutal visions, my most intimate friends.

I seemed like a baby bird keeping its truly innocent animal lusts hidden under its wing. I was being tempted, not by the desire of possession, but simply by unadorned temptation itself.

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