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“We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― 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
“Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“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.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
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