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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.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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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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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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I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, he explained. I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.
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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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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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My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.
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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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A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.
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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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