“We can never flee the misery that is within us.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself. ”
― Women in Love
― Women in Love
“Dark is a way and light is a place,
Heaven that never was
Nor will be ever is always true
"Poem on His Birthday”
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Heaven that never was
Nor will be ever is always true
"Poem on His Birthday”
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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.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
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