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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?

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
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Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.
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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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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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Sadness was a very heavy thing.
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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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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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Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
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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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You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.
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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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Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.
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A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.
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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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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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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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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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Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.
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For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters.
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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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The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
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