"To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It makes their spirits delicate, bright, peaceful. It's never at such times that we become cruel or bloodthirsty. No, it's on a beautiful spring afternoon like this that people suddenly become cruel. It's at a moment like this, don't you think, while one's vaguely watching the sun as it peeps through the leaves of the trees above a well-mown lawn? Every possible nightmare in the world, every possible nightmare in history, has come into being like this."
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Source : Yukio Mishima (2011). “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion”, p.95, Tuttle Publishing
Source : "Seth Green Shares His Secrets of Financial Success as Unbroke Premieres". Interview with Andrea Chalupa, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2009.