“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.”

— Arthur Golden, book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

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American novelist 1956

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