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• From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been, because I'd thought of nothing but the Chairman even while my life was drifting away from me. And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.

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  Men, Giving, Dancer

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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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  Thinking, World, Geisha

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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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  Struggle, Worry, Effort

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.9, Random House

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• Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.

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  Differences, People, Difficulty

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.105, Random House

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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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  Beautiful, Swans, Tree

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.103, Random House

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• Seeing him again after so long awakened something inside me. I was surprised to find myself feeling sad rather than joyful, as I would have imagined.

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  Long, Feelings, Feeling Sad

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• Autobiography, if there really is such a thing, is like asking a rabbit to tell us what he looks like hopping through the grasses of the field. How would he know? If we want to hear about the field on the other hand, no one is in a better circumstance to tell us-so long as we keep in mind that we are missing all those things the rabbit was in no position to observe.

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  Hands, Long, Missing

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

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• A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence.

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  Beautiful, Tree, Looks

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• Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.

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

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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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  Grateful, Evening, Ends

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

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• How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?

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  Wish, Lessons, May

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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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  Two, Facts, Week

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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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  Grief, Sadness, Grieving

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• Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.

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  Party, Struggle, Destiny

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.294, Random House

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• And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

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  Feelings, Body, Might

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

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• Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.

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  Precious Things

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• If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant source of light to let my eyes begin to adjust to the darkness.

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  Eye, Light, Darkness

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• It's your duty to use what influence you have, unless you want to drift through life like a fish belly-up on the stream" "I wish I could believe that life really is something more than a stream that carries us along, belly-up" "Alright, if it's a stream, you're still free to be in this part of it or that part, aren't you? The water will divide again and again. If you bump, and tussle, and fight, and make use of whatever advantages you might have-" "Oh, that's fine, I'm sure, when you have advantages." "You'd find them everywhere, if you ever bothered to look!

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  Believe, Fighting, Water

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• of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will.

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  Pace, Pace Of Change, Courses

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• No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.

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  Memoir, Wells, Knows

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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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  Wall, Men, Leaving

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.111, Random House

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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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  Fishes, Guts, Ifs

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.24, Random House

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• We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things.

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  Growing, Way, Remarkable

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.268, Random House

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• Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing.

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  Writing, Simple, Men

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• A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.

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  Records, World, Memoir

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