“He not busy being born is busy dying.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
“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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