Lord, when human beings are so full of sorrow, why is the sea so blue?
踏むがいい。お前の足の痛さをこの私が一番よく知っている。
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Shusaku Endo
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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