Estava a viver apenas metade em Gion, a outra metade de mim vivia nos meus sonhos de regressar a casa. É por isso que os sonhos podem ser coisas tão perigosas; continuam acesos mesmo sem chama, e às v...
A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.
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...
Dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely.
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...
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...
No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.
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.
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?
Hatsumomo's lovely smille grew... until her lips were as rich and full as drops of blood beading at the edge of a wound
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
Tuga je vrlo neobičan osjećaj, tako smo bespomoćni kad se s njome suočimo. To je nešto poput prozora koji se otvara po vlastitoj volji. Soba se hladi, a mi možemo samo bespomoćno drhtati.
To the eyes of the American soldiers who drove past, I looked no different from the women around me; and as I thought of it, who could say I was any different? If you no longer have leaves, or bark, o...
Nothing is bleaker than the future, except perhaps the past.
It struck me that we-that moth and I-were two opposite extremes. My existence was as unstable as a stream, changing in everyway; but the moth was like a piece of stone, changing not at all. While thin...
In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun to swell; for I had never before taken such a drastic step to change the course...
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.
Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.
And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.
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...