Quotes from book
Thirst for Love

Name: Thirst for Love
Author: Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima

Thirst for Love is a 1950 novel by the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima. The word "kawaki" literally means thirst, but has a sense of parched dryness associated with it.

“Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.”

Yukio Mishima book Thirst for Love

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“The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can't have. Show me a man who fears being ordinary, and I'll show you a man who is not yet a man.”

Yukio Mishima book Thirst for Love

Source: Thirst for Love

“When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.”

Yukio Mishima book Thirst for Love

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“We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise.
In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back.”

Yukio Mishima book Thirst for Love

Source: Thirst for Love

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