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  1. Arthur Golden _ Memoirs of a Geisha

    ich so sehr eine Konkurrenz für Dich, wie eine Pfütze als Meer gilt
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  2. Arthur Golden _ Memoirs of a Geisha

    We topped the ridge a few moments later, and the town of Senzuru came into view below us. The day was drab, everything in shades of gray. It was my first look at the world outside Yoroido, and I didn't think I'd missed much. I could see the thatched roofs of the town around an inlet, amid dull hills, and beyond them the metal-colored sea, broken with shards of white. Inland, the landscape might have been attractive but for the train tracks running across it like a scar. - Chapter 2, pg 20
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  3. Arthur Golden _ Memoirs of a Geisha

    This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely.
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  4. Arthur Golden _ Memoirs of a Geisha

    Llevamos nuestras vidas como el agua que corre colina abajo, más o menos en una dirección, hasta que damos con algo que nos obliga a encontrar un nuevo curso.
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  5. Arthur Golden _ Memoirs of a Geisha

    This was what we Japanese called the "onion life"-peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.
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  6. Arthur Golden _ Memoirs of a Geisha

    Incluso las rocas terminan erosionándose con la lluvia.
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  7. Arthur Golden _ Memoirs of a Geisha

    We human beings are only a part of something very much larger. When we walk along, we may crush a beetle or simply cause a change in the air so that a fly ends up where it might never have gone otherwise. And if we think of the same example but with ourselves in the role of the insect, and the larger universe in the role we've just played, it's perfectly clear that we're affected every day by forces over which we have no more control than the poor beetle has over our gigantic foot as it descends upon it. What are we to do? We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving
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  8. Arthur Golden _ Memoirs of a Geisha

    Every man has his destiny. But who needs to to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?"Nobu
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  9. Arthur Golden _ Memoirs of a Geisha

    My existence was as unstable as a stream, changing in every way; but the moth was like a piece of stone, changing not at all.
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  10. Arthur Golden _ Memoirs of a Geisha

    When I unwrapped the moth from its funeral shroud, it was the same startlingly lovely creature as on the day I had entombed it. Everything about it seemed beautiful and perfect, and so utterly unchanged.
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  11. Arthur Golden _ Memoirs of a Geisha

    At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of melancholy.
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  12. Arthur Golden _ Memoirs of a Geisha

    Could it really be that of all the lessons I'd learned, the hardest one lay just ahead of me? Would I really have to take each of my hopes and put them away where no one would ever see them again, where not even I would ever see them?"Go back to the okiya, Sayuri," Mameha told me. "Prepare for the evening ahead of you. There'snothing like work for getting over a disappointment."
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