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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: 68
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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I've lived my life again just telling it 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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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 geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.
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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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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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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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I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.
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A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
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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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We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy we become geisha because we have no choice.
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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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Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.
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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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If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
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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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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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My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.
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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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