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Sadness was a very heavy thing.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Sadness
Heavy
Thing

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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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His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really his face any longer, but more like a tree that had nests of birds in all of the branches. He had to struggle constantly to manage it and always looked worn out from the effort.
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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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If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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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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My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.
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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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What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realized I'd never really tasted to things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been. What life would I have? I would be like the dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.
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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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Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
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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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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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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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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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The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.
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Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
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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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