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Yukio Mishima Quotes about Lying

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

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

Yukio Mishima
Lying, Heart, Imagine
Yukio Mishima (1969). “Thirst for love”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength.

Yukio Mishima
Pain, Lying, Doubt

A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality.

Yukio Mishima
Father, Lying, Believe

This is a photograph, so it is as you see: there are no lies and no deceptions. One can detect here, elevated to an incomparably higher level, the same pathetic emotional appeal that lies concealed in every fake spiritualist photograph, every pornographic photograph; one comes to suspect that the strange, disturbing emotional appeal of the photographic art consists solely in that same repeated refrain: this is a true ghost... this is a photograph, so it is as you see: there are no lies, no deceptions.

Yukio Mishima
Art, Lying, Emotional

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