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At the temple there is a poem called Loss carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Feel
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Geisha
Feels
Loss
Scratched
Called
Carved
Read
Temple
Words
Temples
Death
Poem
Three
Stone
Cannot
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What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realized I'd never really tasted to things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been. What life would I have? I would be like the dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.
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We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.
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I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him.
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A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.
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Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.
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A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.
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If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.
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Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us
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If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.
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Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.
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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy we become geisha because we have no choice.
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Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.
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She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret.
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His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really his face any longer, but more like a tree that had nests of birds in all of the branches. He had to struggle constantly to manage it and always looked worn out from the effort.
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I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
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Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.
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Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?
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Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.
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After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.
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