Shusaku Endo Quotes

• Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.

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  Beautiful   Miserable   Christ  

  3363

• The smell of death was thick in the city of Vara?asi. And in Tokyo as well. And yet the birds blissfully sang their songs.

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  Song   Cities   Smell  

  2625

• Sin, he reflected, is not what it is usually thought to be; it is not to steal and tell lies. Sin is for one man to walk brutally over the life of another and to be quite oblivious of the wounds he has left behind.

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  Lying   Men   Sin  

  3232

• A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.

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  Life   Real   Thinking  

  631

• Christianity, to be effective in Japan, must change.

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  Japan   Christianity  

  4305

• Over the years I have forged intimate familial ties with these characters, who are reflections of a portion of myself. Consequently, even a character who appeared only once in a short story waits now in the wings, concealed by the curtain, for his next appearance on-stage. Not one of them has ever broken free of his familial ties with me and disappeared for ever - at least, not within the confines of my heart.

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  Heart   Character   Reflection  

  2900

• True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men.

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  Heart   Dark   Men  

  1922

• I became a Catholic against my will.

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  Catholic  

  4999

• Every weakness contains within itself a strength.

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  Weakness  

  4319

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