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I cannot die now, I thought. No, I have to seek vengeance; together with all the other people who have been made to suffer, I have to get back at those who have caused our suffering. No. I must not die.

— Kaneko Fumiko The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman (1991)

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Every joy that some experience is paid for by the sorrow of others.

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I ran for all I was worth, radiant at the thought that I was leaving all behind and going to the salvation of death.

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They say that sincerity moves heaven.

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