“I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.”

— Arthur Golden , book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

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Arthur Golden 66

American novelist 1956

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

“That what we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

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1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)

“This is the land of religion, Be it be for good or for evil, we cannot do without religion. Religious thoughts are in our blood. If we try to flee from it, it will pursue us.”

Mahadev Govind Ranade (1842–1901) Indian scholar, social reformer and author

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“Through wind, hail or frost my living's made.
I am a lecher, and she's a lecher with me.
Which one of us is better? We're both alike:
The one as worthy as the other. Bad rat, bad cat.
We both love filth, and filth pursues us;
We flee from honor, honor flees from us,
In this brothel where we ply our trade.”

Francois Villon book Le Testament

Vente, gresle, gelle, j'ay mon pain cuit.
Ie suis paillart, la paillarde me suit.
Lequel vault mieulx? Chascun bien s'entresuit.
L'ung vault l'autre; c'est a mau rat mau chat.
Ordure amons, ordure nous assuit;
Nous deffuyons onneur, il nous deffuit,
En ce bordeau ou tenons nostre estat.
Source: Le Grand Testament (The Great Testament) (1461), Line 1621; "Ballade de la Grosse Margot (Ballade for Fat Margot)".