Ryunosuke Akutagawa. Nose (№ 18829)

... In the human heart there are two contradictory feelings. No person who would not sympathize with the misfortune of one's neighbor. But this is the middle somehow to get better, as it is the feeling that something has been lacking. Slightly exaggerated, it is permissible even to say that there is a desire again to plunge in the middle of this in the same trouble. Immediately appears though passive, and yet the hostility to this neighbor...