Arthur Golden quotes - page 2

I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon. (Arthur Golden)
I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us. View quote
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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. View quote
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Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future. View quote
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Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see. View quote
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I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, " he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence. View quote
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A woman who acts like a fool is a fool. View quote
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After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom. View quote
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If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain. View quote
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An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them. View quote
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Even stone can be worn down with enough rain. (Arthur Golden)
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. View quote
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As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past. View quote
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Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred. View quote
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You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you. View quote
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This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely. View quote
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Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you. View quote
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Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron. View quote
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It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while. View quote
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At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy. View quote
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I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me. (Arthur Golden)
Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should. View quote
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