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agora sei que o nosso mundo nao e mais permanente do que uma onda a erguer-se no oceano. E quaisquer que sejam as nossas lutas e triunfos, como quer que os possamos sofrer, muito rapidamente se dissolvem todos numa aguada, como tinta de pintar no papel
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that droplet of moisture that had slipped from me like a tear seemed almost to tell the story of my life. It fell through empty space, with no control whatsoever over its destiny; rolled along a path of silk; and somehow came to rest there on the teeth of that dragon. I thought of the petals I'd thrown into the Kamo River shallows outside Mr. Arashino's workshop, imagining they might find their way to the Chairman. It seemed to me that, som..
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love
petals
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I watched him walk away with sickness in my heart--though it was a pleasing kind of sickness, if such a thing exists. I mean to say that if you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful that it happened. In that brief encounter with the Chairman, I had changed from a lost girl facing a lifetime of emptiness to a girl with purpose in her life. Perhaps it seems o..
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All my hard work in overhearing it was it was about as rewarding to me as a man who lugs a chest up the hill only to learn that its full of rocks.
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But what I could see out of the corner of my eye made me think of two lovely bundles of silk floating along a stream. In a moment they were hovering on the walkway in front of me, where they sank down and smoothed their kimono across their knees.
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He lived in a world that was visible, even if it didn't always please him to be there.
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Arthur Golden |
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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.
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And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.
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life
love
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We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill , going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course
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El cuarto de Hatsumono era el mas grande de la okiya; ocupaba mas espacio que toda mi casa de Yoroido. No
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Since the day I'd left Yoroido, I'd done nothing but worry that every turn of life's wheel would bring yet another obstacle into my path; and of course, it was the worrying and the struggle that had always made life so vividly real to me.
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struggle
obstacle
path
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It struck me that we-that moth and I-were two opposite extremes. My existence was as unstable as a stream, changing in every way; but the moth was like a piece of stone, changing not at all. While thinking this thought, I reached out a finger to feel the moth's velvety surface; but when I brushed it with my fingertip, it turned all at once into a pile of ash without even a sound, without even a moment in which I could see it crumbling. I wa..
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I had the sudden insight that nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
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Zar zivot nije nista drugo do oluja koja stalno odnosi ono sto je jos samo trenutak ranije bilo tu i ostavlja za sobom tek nesto ogoljelo i neprepoznatljivo?
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I lived in that contented state a long while before I was finally able to look back and admit how desolate my life had once been. I'm sure I could never have told my story otherwise; I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.
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If we rub a fabric too often, it will quickly grow threadbare; and Nobu's words had rasped against me so much, I could no longer maintain that finely lacquered surface Mameha had always counseled me to hide behind.
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words
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dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely.
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Izdrzi. To je jedino sto bilo tko od nas moze uciniti na ovome svijetu.
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When I said these words, all the heat in my body seemed to rise to my face. I felt I might float up into the air, just like a piece of ash from a fire.
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feelings
love
fire
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The eyes] are the most expressive part of a woman's body.
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Sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier.
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The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.
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humor
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Is this how you act toward your honored guest? You must take him out onto the street and walk him around a bit to wake him up. The cold will do him good." "He's lying in the snow. Isn't that cold enough?"
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Now, Chiyo, stumbling along in life is a poor way to proceed. You must learn how to find the time and place for things.
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I knew he noticed the tress, and the mud, and the children in the street, but I had no reason to believe he'd ever notice me.
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Arthur Golden |
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We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I had never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.
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Ninguno de nosotros encuentra en este mundo todo el carino que deberiamos.
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Arthur Golden |
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We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course. If I'd never met Mr. Tanaka, my life would have been a simple stream flowing from our tipsy house to the ocean. Mr. Tanaka changed all that when he sent me out into the world. But being sent out into the world isn't necessarily the same as leaving your home behind you. I'd been in Gion mor..
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The world was simply too cruel; how could I survive?
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pain
world
hoplessness
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another motive as well--namely, to preserve her voice, which had a quality of expressiveness I have rarely encountered. Customarily she spoke with a soft tone, as one might expect of a woman who has made a career of entertaining men.
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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."
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Eu nunca procuro derrotar o homem que estou a combater - explicou ele - procuro derrotar a confianca que ele tem em si proprio. Uma mente perturbada pela duvida nao se pode concentrar no curso em direccao a vitoria. Dois homens sao iguais, verdadeiramente iguais, so quando tem ambos uma autoconfianca igual
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People in the village often said she ought to have been extremely attractive, because her parents had been. Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together; this was the terrible trick nature had played on her.
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I learned that year that nothing is so unpredictable as who will survive a war and who won't.
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I won't say I'd never wondered what might happen if she should die; I did wonder about it, in the same way I wondered what might happen if our house were swallowed up in an earthquake. There could hardly be life after such an event.
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I'd done nothing but worry that every turn of life's wheel would bring yet another obstacle into my path; and of course, it was the worrying and the struggle that had always made life so vividly real to me. When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.
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When I was in the street throwing a beanbag with the other children and Mr. Tanaka happened to stroll out of the seafood company, I always stopped what I was doing to watch him. I lay there on that slimy table while Mr. Tanaka examined my lip, pulling it down with his fingers and tipping my head this way and that. All at once he caught sight of my gray eyes, which were fixed on his face with such fascination, I couldn't pretend I hadn't bee..
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Because I'd lived through adversity once before, what I learned about myself was like a reminder of something I'd once known but had nearly forgotten-namely, that beneath the elegant clothing, and the accomplished dancing, and the clever conversation, my life had no complexity at all, but was as simple as a stone falling toward the ground. My whole purpose in everything during the past ten years had been to win the affections of the Chairma..
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I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. 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, because I'd thought of nothing but the Chairman even while my life was drifting away from me. And yet if I drew my thoughts back from h..
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I've often observed that men and women who were young children during these years [of defeat in war] have a certain seriousness about them; there was too little laughter in their childhoods.
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Estava a viver apenas metade em Gion, a outra metade de mim vivia nos meus sonhos de regressar a casa. E por isso que os sonhos podem ser coisas tao perigosas; continuam acesos mesmo sem chama, e as vezes consomem-nos completamente
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Tuga je vrlo neobican osjecaj, tako smo bespomocni kad se s njome suocimo. To je nesto poput prozora koji se otvara po vlastitoj volji. Soba se hladi, a mi mozemo samo bespomocno drhtati.
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Taka eden den, pred mnogu godini, mu turav sake na eden chovek koj, taka patem, sluchajno, spomena deka pred edna nedela bil vo Joroido. Bozhe, se pochustvuvav kako ptitsa koga kje go preleta okeanot i kje sretne sushtestvo shto go znae nejzinoto gnezdo.
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Kakvito i da sa bitkite i pobedite ni, kakto i da gi prezhiviavame, mnogo skoro te izbledniavat kato vodnisto mastilo v'rkhu khartiia.
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