弱虫でもいいじゃないか。弱虫の一生だっていいじゃないか。
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Shūsaku Endō
Endo Shusaku (1923-1996) was a Japanese Catholic novelist whose masterpiece 'Silence' explored the persecution of Christians in feudal Japan and the agonizing question of whether God is present in human suffering. Often called 'the Japanese Graham Greene,' he spent his career examining the tension between Western faith and Japanese culture.
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是非に及ばず。
-- Oda Nobunaga
In this uncertain world, we cannot know what tomorrow brings.
-- Sanada Yukimura
Lord, when human beings are so full of sorrow, why is the sea so blue?
-- Shūsaku Endō
弱虫は、幸福をさえおそれるものです。綿で怪我をするんです。
-- Osamu Dazai
理由も分らずに押付けられたものを大人しく受取って、理由も分らずに生きて行くのが、我々生きもののさだめだ。
-- Atsushi Nakajima
The supreme elegance is to be a good man.
-- Victor Hugo