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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.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
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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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Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.
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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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Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.
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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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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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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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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 worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.
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Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.
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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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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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