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141 " Among the many stories of Christian martyrdom in this country of ours, this one has been handed down to posterity as the single most embarrassing failure. When all three of them abandoned the holy teachings together, the entire crowd of spectators—men and women of all ages, not one of whom had any grasp of what the Heavenly Lord even was—conceived a tremendous hatred for them. It may well be that the crowd felt cheated out of the promised burning at the stake. "
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
142 " Moved by six parts terror and four parts curiosity, the servant forgot to breathe for a moment. To borrow a phrase from a writer of old,1 he felt as if “the hairs on his head were growing thick. "
143 " To do something when there was nothing to be done, he would have to be prepared to do anything at all. "
144 " الواحد منا يحب أن يفكر في الناس كأنهم كبار ... أبطال كبار ... أشرار كبار ... أي شئ كبير ... ولكن لا ... هكذا هم ... صغار ... ضعاف ... أنانيون ... لايؤمنون بشئ "
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa ,
145 " En el hombre conviven dos sentimientos opuestos. No hay nadie, por ejemplo, que ante la desgracia del prójimo, no sienta compasión. Pero si esa misma persona consigue superar esa desgracia ya no nos emociona mayormente. Exagerando, nos tienta a hacerla caer de nuevo en su anterior estado. Y sin darnos cuenta sentimos cierta hostilidad hacia ella. "
146 " When I kill a man, I do it with my sword, but people like you don’t use swords. You gentlemen kill with your power, with your money, and sometimes just with your words: you tell people you’re doing them a favor. True, no blood flows, the man is still alive, but you’ve killed him all the same. I don’t know whose sin is greater—yours or mine. (A sarcastic smile.) "
147 " سيف ذو مقبض من الفضة يمكن أن يجفف دموعا كثيرة "
148 " The witness examined the head and, smelling the blood, expressed his satisfaction to the swordsman: “An excellent cut. "
149 " Pillowing his head on his rose-scented skepticism, "
150 " Why do you attack the present social system? Because I see the evils that capitalism has engendered. Evils? I thought you recognized no difference between good and evil. How do you make a living, then? He engaged thus in dialogue with an angel—an angel in an impeccable top hat. "
