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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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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
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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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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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A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge.
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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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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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My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.
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I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward 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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By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.
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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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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable?
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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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Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
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I've lived my life again just telling it to you.
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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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The swan who goes on living in its parents' tree will die this is why those who are beautiful and talented bear the burden of finding their own way in the world.
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No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.
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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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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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