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Anyone can have a good day. The question is what do you do on a bad day. That's when you're being tested. In a very tangible sense, a bad day shows your innermost essence more than a good day.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
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You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.
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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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If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
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A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.
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Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.
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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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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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Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
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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 tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow – though I can’t think what I was swallowing, unless it was a little knot of emotion I pushed back down because there was no room in my face for any more.
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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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A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
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When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.
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Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
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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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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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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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