Algren: So you will take your own life? In shame? Shame for a life of service? Discipline? Compassion?
Katsumoto: The way of the Samurai is not necessary anymore.
Algren: Necessary? What could be more necessary?
Algren: There is some comfort in the emptiness of the sea, no past, no future.
Katsumoto: The perfect blossom is a rare thing. You could spend your life looking for one, and it would not be a wasted life.
Colonel Bagley: Just tell me one thing, what is it about your own people you hate so much?
Emperor Meiji: Tell me how he died.
Algren: I will tell you how he lived.
Simon Graham: But I like to think he may have at last found some small measure of peace, that we all seek, and few of us ever find.
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