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One Quotes by Arthur Golden
- Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
- 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…
- 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…
- For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated…
- Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own…
- The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
- Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and…
- I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds…
- Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean? I remembered very well that one day back in Yoroido, a boy pushed me into a…
- Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.
- Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.
- If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant source of light…
- We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will…
- This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided…
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
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