Quotes from Arthur Golden

I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me

Aku tertidur nyenyak dan bermimpi aku sedang berada dalam bangket di Gion, bicara dengan seorang laki-laki tua yang menjelaskan kepadaku bahwa istrinya, yang dicintainya dengan amat mendalam, tidak benar-benar meninggal karena kenikmatan saat mereka bersama-sama masih hidup di dalam dirinya.

La adversidad es semejante a un vendaval. Y no me refiero sólo a que nos impida ir a lugares a los que de no ser por ella habríamos ido. También se lleva de nosotros todo salvo aquello que no se puede arrancar, de modo que cuando ha pasado nos vemos como realmente somos, y no como nos habría gustado ser.

Fakat d?? dünyaya gönderilmek, yuvan?z? terk etmenizle ayn? kap?ya ç?kmaz.

How curious it is, what the future brings us. You must take care, Sayuri, never to expect too much.

I knew she was gone, and yet the very emptiness of the hall seemed to suggest something of her presence. Even now, as an older woman, I sometimes lift the brocade cover on the mirror of my makeup stand, and have the briefest flicker of a thought that I may find her there in the glass, smirking at me.

Every step I have taken in my life since I was a child in Gion, I have taken in the hope of bringing myself closer to you.

Sentía que había traicionado a un hombre que había sido tan bueno conmigo, un hombre en el que había llegado a ver un amigo.

Sekarang aku tahu bahwa dunia kita sama tidak permanennya dengan ombak yang timbul di lautan. Apapun perjuangan dan kemenangan kita, betapapun kita menderita karenanya, segera saja semuanya akan merembes menyatu, seperti tinta yang tumpah ke kertas.

Tuve la súbita intuición de que nada en la vida es tan simple como imaginamos.

La belleza me sorprendió como una especie de dolorosa melancolía.

It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.

Ninguno encontramos en este mundo el cariño que deberíamos.

Meus encontros com o General me lembravam certa vez quando, ainda criança, eu lutara por subir numa árvore e pegar certa folha no alto. Era tudo uma questão de movimentos cautelosos, suportando o desconforto até finalmente atingir meu objetivo.

cards decorated with a colorful spray of plum blossoms in the background. Yasuda admired it for a moment before putting it into his shirt pocket. I had the feeling no words we spoke could be as eloquent as this simple interaction, so I bowed to him and went on to the next man.

Some days the Arashinos' little grandson, Juntaro, cried from hunger—which is when Mr. Arashino usually decided to sell a kimono from his collection. This was what we Japanese called the "onion life"—peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.

Whatever our struggles, and whether we sink or swim, our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean.

Nunca procuro derrotar o homem a quem estou combatendo... Procuro derrotar sua confiança, Uma mente perturbada pela pela dúvida não pode se concentrar no curso da vitória. Dois homens são iguais - de verdade - só quando ambos têm igual confiança.

Every time I happened to read an account in the newspaper of some little shop that had made, say, bicycle parts before the war, and was now back in business almost as though the war had never happened, I had to tell myself that if our entire nation could emerge from its own dark valley, there was certainly hope that I could emerge from mine.

Nunca procuro derrotar o homem a quem estou combatendo... Procuro derrotar sua confiança. Uma mente perturbada pela dúvida não pode se concentrar no curso da vitória. Dois homens são iguais - de verdade - só quando ambos têm igual confiança.

What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been

When you want to break a board, cracking it in the middle is only the first step. Success comes when you bounce up and down with all your might until the board snaps in half

CAPÍTULO OCHO

If you want to be successful, Sayuri, you must be sure that men's feelings remain always under your control.