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The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Death
Heartbreaking
Nothing
Hopes
Heart
Slow
Like
Leaves
None
Remains
Dies
Geisha
Hope
Shedding

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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 worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
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How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?
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I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before you.
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As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.
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My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.
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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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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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If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
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Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.
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Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.
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The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.
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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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I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.
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You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.
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Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
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