It is all right to be a coward. A coward's life is a life all the same.
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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