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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.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“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.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence. ”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Autobiography, if there really is such a thing, is like asking a rabbit to tell us what he looks like hopping through the grasses of the field. How would he know? If we want to hear about the field on the other hand, no one is in a better circumstance to tell us-so long as we keep in mind that we are missing all those things the rabbit was in no position to observe. ”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together...”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“I was thanking him for...well, for something I'm not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty could be found in the world, I suppose.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Seeing him again after so long awakened something inside me. I was surprised to find myself feeling sad rather than joyful, as I would have imagined.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“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”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“I'm not sure this will make sense to you, but I felt as though I'd turned around to look in a different direction, so that I no longer faced backward toward the past, but forward toward the future. And now the question confronting me was this: What would that future be? The moment this question formed in my mind, I knew with as much certainty as I'd ever known anything that sometime during that day I would receive a sign. This was why the bearded man had opened the window in my dream. He was saying to me, "Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“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.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha