“An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body, I could defeat ugliness. A man isn’t tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.”

—  Yukio Mishima, book The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Source: The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

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