"Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?"

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I am one who has always been interested only in the edges of the body and the spirit, the outlying regions of the body and the outlying regions of the spirit. The depths hold no interest for me; I leave them to others, for they are shallow, commonplace. What is there, then, at the outer most edge? Nothing, perhaps, save a few ribbons, dangling down into the void.

— Yukio Mishima