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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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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There is nothing to be done about it.
-- The revolutionary warlord who dismantled feudal Japan's medieval order and launched the country toward unification
In this uncertain world, we cannot know what tomorrow brings.
-- Called 'the greatest warrior in Japan' by his enem
There is a goal but no way; what we call the way is hesitation.
-- Franz Kafka
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
Lord, when human beings are so full of sorrow, why is the sea so blue?
-- Shusaku Endo
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