Arthur Golden citáty

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„Zármutek je něco zvláštního; neubráníme se mu. Je jako okno, které se otvírá o své vlastní vůli. V místnosti je stále chladněji a nám nezbývá než se chět zimou. Ale to okno se pokaždé otevře o trochu méně a jednoho dne se s úžasem ptáme, kam se podělo.“

Arthur Golden

“An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. 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 them.”

Arthur Golden kniha Memoirs of a Geisha

“Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.”

Arthur Golden kniha Memoirs of a Geisha

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

Arthur Golden kniha Memoirs of a Geisha

“Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?”

Arthur Golden kniha Memoirs of a Geisha

“I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.”

Arthur Golden kniha Memoirs of a Geisha

“A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence.”

Arthur Golden kniha Memoirs of a Geisha

“We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.”

Arthur Golden kniha Memoirs of a Geisha

“Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.”

Arthur Golden kniha Memoirs of a Geisha

“Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us”

Arthur Golden kniha Memoirs of a Geisha

“I was thanking him for… well, for something I'm not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty could be found in the world, I suppose.”

Arthur Golden kniha Memoirs of a Geisha

“I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.”

Arthur Golden kniha Memoirs of a Geisha

“Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together…”

Arthur Golden kniha Memoirs of a Geisha

“Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.”

Arthur Golden kniha Memoirs of a Geisha

“Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.”

Arthur Golden kniha Memoirs of a Geisha

“How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?”

Arthur Golden kniha Memoirs of a Geisha

“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.”

Arthur Golden kniha Memoirs of a Geisha

“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”

Arthur Golden kniha Memoirs of a Geisha

“A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.”

Arthur Golden kniha Memoirs of a Geisha

“I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them.”

Arthur Golden kniha Memoirs of a Geisha

“I've lived my life again just telling it to you.”

Arthur Golden kniha Memoirs of a Geisha

“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 just as this man's wife lived on inside him.”

Arthur Golden kniha Memoirs of a Geisha

“And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.”

Arthur Golden kniha Memoirs of a Geisha

“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.”

Arthur Golden kniha Memoirs of a Geisha

“At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.”

Arthur Golden

“You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.”

Arthur Golden kniha Memoirs of a Geisha

“Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.”

Arthur Golden kniha Memoirs of a Geisha

“A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.”

Arthur Golden kniha Memoirs of a Geisha

“When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.”

Arthur Golden kniha Memoirs of a Geisha

“Nothing like work for getting over a disappointment.”

Arthur Golden kniha Memoirs of a Geisha