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A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Blooms
Moods
Studied
Mood
Seasons
Men
Geisha

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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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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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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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The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.
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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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At the temple there is a poem called Loss carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.
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Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
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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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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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Sadness was a very heavy thing.
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And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.
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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've lived my life again just telling it to you.
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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 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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If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
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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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My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.
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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 will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.
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