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What did he mean by this?

>> No.19048558

>>19048466
Everything that is beautiful eventually becomes ugly given enough time. If you're beautiful and want to stay beautiful you should kill yourself/find some way to die aesthetically.

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>> No.19048568

>>19048466
He liked it rough.

>> No.19048604

>>19048568
kek, the poetic-irony of an old ugly hag misinterpreting what Mishima means by beauty honestly makes me very happy, truly the Lord hardened the heart of the fools

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>>19048604
Where’s the lie?
I’m an artist. I know what he means.

>> No.19048688

>>19048652
>I’m an artist.
kek, come on butters being a tranny and a retard is good enough to make me chuckle, but being delusional just makes the joke that is your pathetic existence a little too unbelievable, what s next you're going o think that anything that you say isn't just trite and uninteresting plebtier garbage?

>> No.19048749

>>19048466
True beauty is perfect, it doesn't need to poop or have any necessity. And this kills humans, that are part biological/material/instinctive and part soul/reason/divine. True beauty is so perfect that we can't even concieve it, it would blinds us if we looked at it directely, as the platonic sun.

>Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the Angelic
>Orders? And even if one were to suddenly
>take me to its heart, I would vanish into its
>stronger existence. For beauty is nothing but
>the beginning of terror, that we are still able to bear,
>and we revere it so, because it calmly disdains
>to destroy us. Every Angel is terror.

>> No.19048754

>>19048688
the epitome of based

>> No.19048760

something he read about the sublime but then his gay instincts took over

>> No.19048809
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>>19048754
It’s funny how the base-heads alway turn up for the stupidest dullard posts

>> No.19048813

Tragedy. True beauty is that which affirms existence and causes aesthetic arrest, even in the face of the most terrible realities inherent to existence. Thus, beauty, true beauty, is tragic, grippingly and stunningly tragic.

>> No.19048834

>>19048809
Busted

>> No.19050826

>>19048466
Beauty controls, rob your life and desires, leading you down a hopeless path trailed by illusions which will ultimately destroy part of you.

>> No.19050847

>>19048466
Niggers

>> No.19050872

>>19048466

>Loving you was like loving the dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFwYJYl5GUQ

>> No.19050897

>>19048652
>I’m an artist. I know what he means.
do you think of yourself as the modern Henry Darger or something? Do you imagine that once you die you'll be discovered by some haphazard landlord and finally be vindicated in the eyes of the world as the bold outsider artist you always knew yourself to be? Come on, you must know that the only sense in which you will be "discovered" is as a skeleton on the couch by some bill collector, remembered only for the loneliness in which you must have lived (if that).

>> No.19050932

>>19048466
Being in the presence of a God has never been a safe or comfortable experience. Awe is mixed in with fear.

In this the two great cultures of Judaism and Greece in the age of the Aries are most exemplary.

>> No.19050945

>>19048466
He’s saying that true beauty is so desirable it fights off other ideals in a war like fashion, true beauty basically necessitates great suffering, his book Temple of the Golden Pavilion is a nice metaphor explaining the quote

>> No.19050977

He wanted the BBC.

>> No.19050980
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>>19048466
He is, either: conflating essence with appearance, or inversively referring to nigredo —I ignore the context.

True beauty is protective: proactively defensive; one layers oneself, and bathes, in beauty.

>> No.19051008

>>19050932
>Awe is mixed in with fear.
Awe already means mixed with fear
In fact, "fear" was the original meaning

https://www.etymonline.com/word/awe

>> No.19051063

>>19048466
It's so hard to take anything a man says seriously when you know he got railed by other dudes.

>> No.19051109

>>19048568
this time butterfly is right, mishima is literally talking about being anally penetrated in that quote and the /fit/ morons who read him because they think he is le based fascist are eternally coping that they got memed into liking a fag

>> No.19051142

>>19051109
I love how when writers like Oscar Wilde are called faggots people are quick to evoke that ''this is a superficial way of judging an author's body of work'', yet, when it comes to Mishima they do the same thing.

>> No.19051160

>>19051142
but I call oscar wilde a faggot too, so I don't see your point

>> No.19051250

>>19050932
Based. I love the older churches here in Georgia. They tend to feature a massive fresco of Christ on the ceilings. Truly awe inspiring. Don't know if it's the same in the other Orthodox churches

>> No.19051261

>>19050980
Congrats, you managed to sound gayer than Mishima

>> No.19051314

>>19048563
When he was little, he masturbated to pictures of Saint Sebastian pierced by arrows.

>> No.19051322

>>19048652
>I’m an artist.
It's another "repulsive tranny has a webcomic or an instagram full of its shit drawings and thinks that makes HIM an artist" episode.

>> No.19051333

>>19048809
>this much butthurt
laughing-whores-that-at-least-are-real-women.jpg

>> No.19051347

>>19051160
>unfathomably based

>> No.19051432

>>19048558
That's not what the quote means at all, im so confused how you even came to this interpretation.

>> No.19051439

He means "I'm gay and beauty is whatever my mutilated mind says."

>> No.19051456
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Clearly something only a homo would say

>> No.19051466

>>19048652
>I’m an artist
How does it make you feel that Ezra Pound, arguably the greatest English poet of the 20th century was hanging out with the Italian Government and giving anti-war radio broadcasts?

>> No.19051470

>>19048652
You know what butters, you're all right in my book.

>> No.19051475

>>19048466
Imagine fucking Yukio's tight Jap ass hard...

>> No.19051543

>>19051008
Go fuck yourself.

But seriously the modern usage of awe doesn't necessarily include fear and often just means amazement.

>>19051250
Sounds beautiful anon. You are lucky to have such a rich culture.

>> No.19051589

"The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man."
-Dostoyevsky, BK

>> No.19052979

>>19048466
It's a completely vacuous statement that pseuds pretend is profound. STEMchads win again.