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A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
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Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.
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My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.
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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.
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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 tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow – though I can’t think what I was swallowing, unless it was a little knot of emotion I pushed back down because there was no room in my face for any more.
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I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, he explained. I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.
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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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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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For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters.
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A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.
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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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It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.
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Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
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We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them.
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I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.
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Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.
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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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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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