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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Name: The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Author: Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima Original title 午後の曳航 (Japanese, 1963)

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea is a novel written by Yukio Mishima, published in Japanese in 1963 and translated into English by John Nathan in 1965.

“There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.”

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“… living is merely the chaos of existence…”

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

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“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.”

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“There's a huge seal called 'impossibility' pasted all over this world. And don't ever forget that we're the only ones who can tear it off once and for all.”

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

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