Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
“If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because we have said everything before we had anything to say, we shall be left speechless at the moment of our greatest decision.”
Source: Thoughts in Solitude
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Source: An Uncertain Dream