I don't know for sure what ever became of Hatsumomo. A few years after the war, I heard she was making a living as a prostitute in the Miyagawa-cho district. She couldn't have been there long, because...
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.
I expect you to go through life with your eyes open! If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.
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 be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I had never imagined such a thin...
Some times we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.
I had the sudden insight that nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
When I said these words, all the heat in my body seemed to rise to my face. I felt I might float up into the air, just like a piece of ash from a fire.
Seeing him again after so long awakened something inside me. I was surprised to find myself feeling sad rather than joyful, as I would have imagined.
I must tell you something about necks in Japan, if you don't know it; namely, that Japanese men, as a rule, feel about a woman's neck and throat the same way that men in the West might feel about a wo...
People in the village often said she ought to have been extremely attractive, because her parents had been. Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together;...
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.
Incluso las rocas terminan erosionándose con la lluvia.
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.
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
If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
I've lived my life again just telling it to you.
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 can never flee the misery that is within us.
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.
If he couldn't forgive you for what you'd done, it was clear to me he was never truly your destiny.
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