Quotes from Arthur Golden

I was living only half in Gion; the other half of me lived in my dreams of going home. This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely.

Un día le pregunté: ¿Papá, por qué eres tan viejo?. Él arqueó las cejas, de modo que tomaron la forma de unos pequeños paraguas caídos sobre sus ojos. Y luego suspiró largamente, movió la cabeza y dijo: No lo sé.

success. "I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting," he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals—true equals—only when they both have equal confidence

I could never have imagined that I - a slave terrorized by Hatsumomo's wickedness- had lived a relatively fortunate life through the Great Depression. But that day I realized it was true.

No le estaba dando gracias por la moneda, ni tampoco por la molestia que se había tomado al detenerse a ayudarme. Le estaba dando las gracias por... bueno, por algo que no estoy segura de poder explicar ni tan siquiera ahora. Por mostrarme que en el mundo se puede encontrar algo más que crueldad, supongo.

I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting," he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals—true equals—only

Mlade devojke uvek u srcu nose svakojake nerazumne nade. Nade su kao ukras za kosu. Devojke žele da nose previše ukrasa. Kad ostare, izgledaju glupo ako nose ?ak i samo jedan.

when they both have equal confidence.

You'll be wrinkled yourself one day." "But some of his wrinkles are the way he's made," I said. "The back of his head is as old as the front, but it's as smooth as an egg.

I'd been a child with my head in a bag. All I'd seen day after day was Gion, so much so that I'd come to think Gion was everything, and that the only thing that mattered in the world was Gion. But now that I was outside Kyoto, I could see that for most people life had nothing to do with Gion at al; and of course, I couldn't stop from thinking of the other life I'd once led.

There are even men who do little in their lives besides search for different caves to let their eels live in. A woman's cave is particularly special to a man if no other eel has ever been in it before.

Dem Elend, das in uns wohnt, können wir natürlich nicht entfliehen.

Young girls hope all sorts of foolish things, Sayuri. Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

Skumjas ir tik sav?das,kad t?s uzn?k, m?s esam gluži bezsp?c?gi. T?s ir k? logs, kas pats no sevis atveras. Istab? k??st auksti, un mums atliek vien?gi drebin?ties. Bet ar katru reizi logs atveras šaur?k un aizvien šaur?k, un tad k?du dienu m?s iedom?jamies, kur gan tas palicis.

You might say Gion was like a pond high up on a mountaintop, fed by streams of rich springwater. More water poured in at some spots than others, but it raised the pond as a whole.

Por eso los sueños son tan peligrosos: abrasan como el fuego y te consumen completamente

No intento vencer al hombre con el que estoy enfrentado-explicó-. Intento vencer su confianza. Una mente empañada por la duda no puede enfocar claramente el camino a la victoria. Dos hombres son iguales -verdaderamente iguales- solo cuando tienen el mismo grado de confianza en ellos Yamamoto Isoroku

Whatever your struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.

El destino no siempre es algo semejante a una fiesta al anochecer. A veces no es más que la lucha por sobrevivir día tras día.

The first time, I couldn't have felt more panicked if I'd sneezed and found pieces of my brain in the handkerchief.

Yo sólo espero que vayas por la vida con los ojos abiertos. Si no pierdes de vista tu destino, todos los momentos de la vida se convierten en una oportunidad para aproximarte a él Nobu

Las esperanzas son como los adornos del pelo. De joven se pueden llevar demasiados. Pero cuando envejeces, tan sólo uno ya te hace parecer tonta.

Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean?

When I looked up, Nobu was watching me. Guests all around him were laughing and enjoying themselves, and there he sat with his eyes fixed on me, as lost in his thoughts as I had been in mine. We were like two wet spots in the midst of burning charcoal.