"If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible."

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And what made these heart-to-hearts possible--you might even say what made the whole friendship possible during that time--was this understanding we had that anything we told each other during these moments would be treated with careful respect: that we'd honor confidences, and that no matter how much we rowed, we wouldn't use against each other anything we'd talked about during those sessions.

— Kazuo Ishiguro