It was an evening of torment, and I remember only one other thing about it. At some point after everyone was asleep, I wandered away from the inn in a daze and ended up on the sea cliffs, staring out...
Llevamos nuestras vidas como el agua que corre colina abajo, más o menos en una dirección, hasta que damos con algo que nos obliga a encontrar un nuevo curso.
My existence was as unstable as a stream, changing in every way; but the moth was like a piece of stone, changing not at all.
My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.
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.
No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.
This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.
Nothing like work for getting over a disappointment.
Now, Chiyo, stumbling along in life is a poor way to proceed. You must learn how to find the time and place for things.
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...
Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.
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;...
Sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier.
Sadness was a very heavy thing.
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.
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 enterta...
The moment I formulated this thought, everything aroud me seemed to droop heavily toward the earth. Outside in the garden, the eaves of the roof dripped rain like beads of weighted glass. Even the mat...
Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.
Some times we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.
Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.
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