Only through the group, I realised - through sharing the suffering of the group - could the body reach that height of existence that the individual alone could never attain. (Yukio Mishima)

Only through the group, I realised - through sharing the suffering of the group - could the body reach that height of existence that the individual alone could never attain.

Yukio Mishima

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