The Decay of the Angel (天人五衰, Tennin Gosui?) is a novel by Yukio Mishima and is the fourth and last in his Sea of Fertility tetralogy.
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“It had been a moving, tranquil apotheosis, immersed in the transfiguring sunset glow of decline and decay and extinction. An old family, already grown too weary and too noble for life and action, had reached the end of its history, and its last utterances were sounds of music: a few violin notes, full of the sad insight which is ripeness for death.”
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