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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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Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.
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It's not what you wear or how you look, it's what you feel like that makes you what you are
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When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.
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At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.
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Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.
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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.
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I cannot tell you what it is that guides us in this life; but for me, I fell toward the Chairman just as a stone must fall toward the earth. When I cut my lip and met Mr. Tanaka, when my mother died and I was cruelly sold, it was all like a stream that falls over rocky cliffs before it can reach the ocean. Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories.
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Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
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