“Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.”
Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
“Nothing ever astonishes the really simple person.”
From, Light on Carmel: An Anthology from the Works of Brother John of Saint Samson, O.Carm.
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