“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.”

— Arthur Golden, book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

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