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Inspirational Quotes by Arthur Golden
- I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have.
- Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.
- We can never flee the misery that is within us.
- If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
- A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
- We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us…
- Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.
- Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.
- Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.
- Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.
- We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.
- When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.
- I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless.
- A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.
- Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.
- 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.
- Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.
- You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.
- I've lived my life again just telling it to you.
- My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.
- Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.
- A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.
- Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento