Yukio Mishima (1925–1970) Japanese author
"Raisin Bread", quoted in 三島由紀夫短編集: Seven Stories, translated by John Bester (2002), p. 21.
“Tell him to seek the stars and he will kill himself with climbing.”
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
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