Yukio Mishima Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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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