Still immersed in his dream, he drank down the tepid tea. It tasted bitter. Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff.

“Only through the group, I realised — through sharing the suffering of the group…”

“Kiyo, what would you do if all of a sudden I weren't here any more?' Satoko ask…”

“However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a …”

“The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense…”