Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.
The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can't have. Show me a man who fears being ordinary, and I'll show you a man who is not yet a man.
True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.
We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.
Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
Living is merely the chaos of existence.
As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.
Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.
Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.
What transforms this world is - knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.
When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.
For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.
The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.
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.
Human life is limited but I would like to live forever.
Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination.
If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity is necessary. To accomplish so resolute an action, you have to stake your life, giving no thought to personal gain or loss.
If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.
if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist
I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight.
Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.
a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a ‘function’, one cog in a machine.
Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?
When a captive lion steps out of his cage, he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While he was in captivity, there were only two worlds for him - the world of the cage, and the world outside the cage. Now he is free. He roars. He attacks people. He eats them. Yet he is not satisfied, for there is no third world that is neither the world of the cage nor the world outside the cage.
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