Headlessgod.com » darkness http://www.jack-donovan.com/mishima A Tribute to Yukio Mishima Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:38:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Beauty and Darkness… http://www.jack-donovan.com/mishima/2009/05/beauty-and-darkness/ http://www.jack-donovan.com/mishima/2009/05/beauty-and-darkness/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 15:26:47 +0000 admin http://www.jack-donovan.com/mishima/?p=191 “My concern, what confronted me with my real problem, was beauty alone. But I do not think that the war affected me by filling my mind with gloomy thoughts. When people concentrate on the idea of beauty, they are, without realizing it, confronted with the darkest thoughts that exist in this world. That, I suppose, is how humans are made.”

– Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

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