“Thus in a single phrase I can define the great illusion concerning ‘love’ in this world. It is the effort to join reality with the apparition. Presently I came to realize that my conviction – the conviction that I could never be loved-was itself the basic state of human existence.”

“Thus in a single phrase I can define the great illusion concerning ‘love’ in this world. It is the effort to join reality with the apparition. Presently I came to realize that my conviction – the conviction that I could never be loved-was itself the basic state of human existence.”

— Yukio Mishima