Arthur Golden

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

— Arthur Golden

#beauty #melancholy #memoirs-of-a-geisha #beauty

He was like a song, I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since." - Sayuri, Memoir of Geisha ↗

— Arthur Golden

#life #love #inspirational

We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#inspirational

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#inspirational

Oh I'm sure you're right," Auntie said. "Probably she's just as you say. But she looks to me like a very clever girl, and adaptable; you can see that from the shape of her ears. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#fiction #geisha #japan #memoirs #japan

And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#dance #geisha #life

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#away #cannot #like #ourselves #really

It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#because #confusing #corresponds #culture #geisha

This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#away #decided #details #dry #found

We can never flee the misery that is within us. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#misery #never #us #within