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“I understood that he left me at the end of his long life just as naturally as the leaves fall from the trees.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“Here you are...A beautiful girl with nothing to be ashamed of...And yet you are afraid to look at me. Someone has been cruel to you...Or perhaps life has been cruel.
"I don't know sir" I said, Though of course I knew perfectly well.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
"I don't know sir" I said, Though of course I knew perfectly well.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“You cannot say to the sun, 'More sun,' or to the rain, 'Less rain.' To a man, geisha can only be half a wife. We are the wives of nightfall. And yet, to learn kindness after so much unkindness, to understand that a little girl with more courage than she knew, would find her prayers were answered, can that not be called happiness? After all these are not the memoirs of an empress, nor of a queen. These are memoirs of another kind.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
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