"However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins. It was words of this kind that, descending on me like a swarm of winged insects, seized on my individuality and sought to shut me up within it. Nevertheless, despite the enemy's depredations upon my person, I turned their universality - at once a weapon and a weakness - back on them, and to some extent succeeded in using words to universalize to my own individuality."

-- Yukio Mishima

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“Relationships are made of talk - and talk is for girls and women.”
“Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's soul. The inhabitants of my small country, Costa Rica, have realized those words by Erasmus. Mine is an unarmed people, whose children have never seen a fighter or a tank or a warship.”
“I didn't want to be cut, but it made me a better person and a better player.”
“I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.”

Source : Demi Lovato (2013). “Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year”, p.40, Macmillan
“The thorn of death falls from heaven, and its myriad forms leave us no room to move.”

Source : Kobo Abe (2011). “The Woman in the Dunes”, p.138, Vintage
“The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles.”

Source : 'The Acquisitive Society' (1921)
“You may talk about Free Love, if you please, but we are to have the right to vote. To-day we are fined, imprisoned, and hanged, without a jury trial by our peers. You shall not cheat us by getting us off to talk about something else. When we get the suffrage, then you may taunt us with anything you please, and we will then talk about it as long as you please.”
“One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.”

Source : "What We Don’t Know Will Hurt Us". www.nytimes.com. February 21, 2009.

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