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

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Source : "Runaway Horses". Book by Yukio Mishima, 1969.

Yukio Mishima

#Blood Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Lines Quotes

“Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.”
“No one can understand whatâ€™s the best thing for you to do, other than yourself.”
“By no means do I want to be a piece of meat for the rest of my career. It's funny when you get asked to do a talk show, and then they follow it up with requesting you take your shirt off.”
“Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.”
“She was his and he was hers. They had under-the-skin privileges.”
“Place a lump of fresh butter in a pan or egg dish and let it melt - that is, just enough for it to spread, and never, of course, to crackle or sit; open a very fresh egg onto a small plate or saucer and slide it carefully into the pan; cook it on heat so low that the white barely turns creamy, and the yolk becomes hot but remains liquid; in a separate saucepan, melt another lump of fresh butter; remove the egg onto a lightly heated serving plate; salt it and pepper it, then very gently pour this fresh, warm butter over it”
“My photos are my diary. Every photo is no more than the representation of a single day. And each day contains the past and the projection into the future. That's why I feel compelled to indicate the date on every picture I take.”
“It is hard to convince people of this, but oatmeal truly is miraculous. It gives you an amazing amount of energy, like cocaine.”

Source : Kelly Williams Brown (2013). “Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps”, p.40, Hachette UK

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