A Promise That I Have Been Unable to Keep - The Past Twenty-Five Years Within Me, by Yukio Mishima
"I am unable to tie considerable hope to the Japan of the future. The sense that if things go on like this “Japan” will disappear deepens with each day."
A Promise That I Have Been Unable to Keep - The Past Twenty-Five Years Within Me1
Yukio Mishima
When I think of the past twenty-five years within me, I am surprised even now by their emptiness. I can hardly say that I have “lived.” I have passed through while holding my nose.