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“If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.”
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“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.”
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“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
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“I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.”
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“I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
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