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  1. Arthur Golden _ Memoirs of a Geisha

    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.
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  2. Arthur Golden _ Memoirs of a Geisha

    I knew even then that she was right. 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. Nobu's touch had made a deeper impression on me than most. No one could tell me whether he would be my ultimate destiny, but I had always sensed the en between us. Somewhere in the landscape of my life Nobu would always be present. But could it really be that of all the lessons I'd learned, the hardest one lay just ahead of me? Would I really have to take each of my hopes and put them away where no one would ever see them again, where not even I would ever see them?
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  3. Arthur Golden _ Memoirs of a Geisha

    I'm not sure this will make sense to you but I felt as though I'd turned around to look in a different direction so that I no longer faced backward toward the past but forward toward the future. And now the question confronting me was this: What would the future be
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  4. Arthur Golden _ 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"
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  5. Arthur Golden _ Memoirs of a Geisha

    If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
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