Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god. — Derek Walcott
never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human cruelty. — Edna O'Brien
A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories. — Michel De Certeau
I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place. — Michel Foucault
Two things make the women unforgettable, their tears and their perfume — Sacha Guitry
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart. — Haruki Murakami
The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady. — Richard M. Nixon
the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring. — Margaret Millar
Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears. — Rollo May
Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet. — James Patterson
Geisha Quotes
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 to find a new course. — Arthur Golden
She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret. — Arthur Golden
I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world. — Arthur Golden
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
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. — Arthur Golden
The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women...Every girl in the world should have geisha training. — Diana Vreeland
Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction. — Arthur Golden
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.
We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice. — Arthur Golden
At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy. — Arthur Golden
For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask. — Ziyi Zhang
I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots of red accents in the near future. For me personally, I can't see myself flaunting around in a geisha uniform but it'll make me smile when I see what others do with it. — Colleen Atwood
He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since. — Arthur Golden
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true. — Arthur Golden
I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world. — Arthur Golden
Even stone can be worn down with enough rain. — Arthur Golden
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
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 with them. — Arthur Golden
Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future. — 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. — Arthur Golden
Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it. — Arthur Golden
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. — Arthur Golden
How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal? — Arthur Golden
We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should. — Arthur Golden
Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable? — Arthur Golden
I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have. — Arthur Golden
I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them. — Arthur Golden
Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together. — Arthur Golden
His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really his face any longer, but more like a tree that had nests of birds in all of the branches. He had to struggle constantly to manage it and always looked worn out from the effort. — Arthur Golden
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