“Human beings — they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?”

—  Yukio Mishima , Ken

"Sword" ("Ken"), quoted in 三島由紀夫短編集: Seven Stories, translated by John Bester (2002), p. 67.

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