Trample. It is to be trampled on by you that I am here. I know the pain in your foot best of all.
人間がこんなに哀しいのに主よ海があまりに碧いのです
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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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