- “don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” ― franz kafka
- “true beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.” ― yukio mishima
- o light! this is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. this last resort was ours, too, and i knew it now. in the middle of winter t at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer. ― albert camus
- “when, indeed, men speak of beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul - not of intellect, or of heart.” ― edgar allan poe
- “you were so beautiful when you wanted to die. when you wanted to live, you became so ugly.” ― yukio mishima
- “and so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.” ― edgar allan poe
- “perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.” ― yukio mishima
- “i swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness--a real thorough-going illness.” ― fyodor dostoyevsky
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