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• Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

  Arthur Golden

  Girl, Stupid, Silly

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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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  Fear, Water, Ponds

  "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, September 27, 1997.

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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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  Watches, Your Future, Shows

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.108, Random House

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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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  Real, Thinking, Remember

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.427, Random House

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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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  Children, Taken, Bridges

  "Memoirs of a Geisha". www.imdb.com. December 6, 2005.

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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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  Hope, Heart, One Day

  "Memoirs of a Geisha". www.imdb.com. December 6, 2005.

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• You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.

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  Might, Like You, Desperate

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• Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean? I remembered very well that one day back in Yoroido, a boy pushed me into a thorn bush near the pond. By the time I clawed my way out I was mad enough to bite through wood. If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.

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  Rain, Mean, Boys

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• Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together.

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  Mushrooms, Two, Lovely

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• If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a turtle remains a turtle

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  Mother, Turtles, Agreement

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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.

  Arthur Golden

  Eye, Artist, Deep Water

  "Memoirs of a Geisha". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.

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  Dream, Fire, Doe

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• The prettiest of them all is a girl who is pretty on the inside.

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  Girl, Prettiest

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• Sadness was a very heavy thing.

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  Sadness, Heavy Things, Heavy

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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?

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  Destiny, Men, Needs

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• I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about - the tiny hole through the roof or the bottom of a box. There's no doubt it's the most versatile of the five elements. It can wash away earth; it can put out fire, it can wear a piece of metal down and sweep it away. Even wood, which is its natural complement, can't survive without being nurtured by water And yet, you haven't drawn on those strengths in living your life, have you?

  Arthur Golden

  Fire, Water, Personality

  "Memoirs Of A Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, September 27, 1997.

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• I was thanking him for...well, for something I'm not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty could be found in the world, I suppose.

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  Thanking Him, World, Found

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.113, Random House

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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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  Spring, Winter, Self

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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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  Water, Personality, Landscape

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.125, Random House

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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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  Storm, Moments, Barren

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.13, Random House

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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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  Thinking, Mind, Swallowing

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• At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

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  Kind, Painful, Melancholy

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.187, Random House

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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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  Giving, Dancer, Childhood

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• We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.

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  Kindness, World, Should

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• Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.

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  Rain, Stones, Enough

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.94, Random House

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