"We had stretched out our arms to each other and supported something in our joined hands, but this thing we were holding was like a sort of gas that exists when you believe in its existence and disappears when you doubt. The task of supporting it seems simple at first glance, but actually requires an ultimate refinement of calculation and a consummate skill."

-- Yukio Mishima

#Believe Quotes #Simple Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.”
“What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.”
“Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.”
“I can only write songs when somebody gives me some water to swim in. Otherwise, I'm a fish on the beach.”

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“That wasn't an ending. It was just a stopping point.”
“An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.”
“Believe it or not, there are people who want to be on juries.”
“I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.”

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