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“Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before you.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“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.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
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