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“Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?”

Quote by Yukio Mishima

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Yukio Mishima was a Japanese author and playwright, a prominent figure in post-war Japanese literature. His works, characterized by a fusion of traditional Japanese aesthetics and modernist techniques, often explored themes of tradition, ritual, and the samurai code. more

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“Within those confining walls, teachers - a bunch of men all armed with the same information - gave the same lectures every year from the same notebooks and every year at the same point in the textbooks made the same jokes.”

Men Years Made Teacher Information Wall Jokes Bunch Lectures Notebook Textbooks

Author:Yukio Mishima

“I had long since insisted upon interpreting the things that Fate forced me to do as victories of my own will and intelligence, and now this bad habit had grown into a sort of frenzied arrogance. In the nature of what I was calling my intelligence there was a touch of something illegitimate, a touch of the sham pretender who has been placed on the throne by some freak chance. This dolt of a usurper could not foresee the revenge that would inevitably be wreaked upon his stupid despotism.”

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Author:Yukio Mishima

“Let us remember that the central reality must be sought in the writer's work: it is what the writer chose to write, or was compelled to write, that finally matters. And certainly Mishima's carefully premeditated death is part of his work.”

Writing Matter Reality Remember Working It Compelled

Author:Yukio Mishima

“For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.”

Men Should Crime Punishment Intensity Committing Crimes

Book:On crimes and punishments

Source: On crimes and punishments

“The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.”

War Nations Judging Citizens Destruction Punishment

Book:On crimes and punishments

Source: On crimes and punishments

“Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame or disgust about the human body. If parents are very secretive about their bodies and go to great lengths to prevent their children from ever seeing a buttock or breast, children will wonder what is so unusual, and even alarming, about human nudity.”

“The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the language. "Let it be a challenge to you" means you're stuck with it; "interpersonal relationships" is a fight between kids; "ancillary civic agencies for supportive discipline" means call the cops; "Language Arts Dept." is the English office; "literature based on child's reading level and experiential background" means that's all they've got in the Book Room; "non-academic-minded" is a delinquent; and "It has come to my attention" means you're in trouble.”

Source: Up the Down Staircase

“When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their lives with my big fat checkbook, and I erased years of obstacles for them overnight - but sometimes, in the process, I also accidentally erased years of dignity.”

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“Teachers try to make us feel lower than themselves, maybe because this is because they feel lower than outside people. One teacher told me to get out of the room and never come back, which I did.”

People Feels Trying Rooms Teacher

Book:Up the Down Staircase

Source: Up the Down Staircase

“Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.”

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Book:Up the Down Staircase

Source: Up the Down Staircase