Arthur Golden - Life Quotes

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If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant source of light to let my eyes begin to adjust to the darkness.

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?

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If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.

Arthur Golden
Here's the thing: this eel spends its entire life trying to find a home, and what do you think women have inside them? Caves, where the eels like to live...when they find a cave they like, the wriggle around inside it for a while to be sure that...well, to be sure it's a nice cave, I suppose. And when they've made up their minds that it's comfortable, they mark the cave as their territory...by spitting.

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If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a turtle remains a turtle

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Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.

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I cannot tell you what it is that guides us in this life; but for me, I fell toward the Chairman just as a stone must fall toward the earth. When I cut my lip and met Mr. Tanaka, when my mother died and I was cruelly sold, it was all like a stream that falls over rocky cliffs before it can reach the ocean. Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories.

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If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.

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Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it

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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.

Arthur Golden