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 the...
A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.
Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.
You cannot say to the sun, or to the rain, To a man, geisha can only be half a wife. We are the wives of nightfall. And yet, to learn kindness after so much unkindness, to understand that a little g...
We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.
At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of melancholy.
Sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier.
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 flows around things. There's no doubt it's the most versatile o...
I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.
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. If I'd never met Mr. Tanaka, my life would hav...
Is this how you act toward your honored guest? You must take him out onto the street and walk him around a bit to wake him up. The cold will do him good.He's lying in the snow. Isn't that cold enough?
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 otherw...
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
Isn’t there one thing I can ask of you that you won’t disregard?. . . . You could just reply, Yes, Baron, and be done with it.' Yes, Baron.
My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.
Dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely.
Sadness was a very heavy thing.
Така еден ден, пред многу години, му турав саке на еден човек кој, така патем, случајно, спомена дека пред една недела бил во Јороидо. Боже, се почуствував како птица кога ќе го прелета океанот и ќе с...
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