The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in. (Yukio Mishima)

The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.

Yukio Mishima

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