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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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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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Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.
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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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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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A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.
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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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Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.
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Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
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Sadness was a very heavy thing.
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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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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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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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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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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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No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.
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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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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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Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about. [Mameha]
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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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