"True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys."

-- Yukio Mishima

#True Beauty Quotes

“The paradox is that exactly the reverse is true. Everything thatâ€™s really worthwhile in life came to us free; our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends and country. All these priceless possessions are free. But the things that cost us money are actually very cheap and can be replaced at any time. A good man can be completely wiped out and make another fortune. He can do that several times. Even if our home burns down, we can rebuild it. But the things we got for nothing, we can never replace.”
“I think at its most mature, love is a very bourgeois state. There is something about luxuriating in the nest of love that people fall into naturally.”
“A big book is a big misfortune.”

Source : Fragment 465; translation by A. W. Bulloch, in P. E. Easterling and B. M. W. Knox (eds.) "The Cambridge History of Classical Literature" (1989) vol. 1, part 4, p. 30,
“Whatever the challenge was, however unattainable the goal may have seemed, I never let anyone talk me out of believing in myself.”
“I suppose, because I am a sportsman and travel all over Australia, I see every day Australians doing small and large and often unnoticed deeds; many times I thought how nice it would be for them to be recognised, so I hope somehow that in receiving this honour that I represent these people.”
“She had the same responsibility as everybody else did: to live as softly as she could in the world.”

Source : Kevin Brockmeier (2008). “The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories”, p.17, Vintage
“I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks”
“She hates everything that is not what she longs for.”

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