We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
Bio: Autobiography of a Geisha is a book by Sayo Masuda. It was first published in Japan in 1957, and the English translation by G. G. Rowley was published in 2003.
