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You cannot say to the sun,"More sun." Or to the rain, "Less rain." To a man, geisha canonly be half a wife. We are the wives of nightfall. And yet, to learn of kindness...... after so much unkindness...... to understand that a little girlwith more courage than she knew...... would find her prayerswere answered...... can that not be called happiness? After all...... These are not the memoirsof an empress, nor of a queen. These are memoirsof another kind
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You cannot say to the sun More sun
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Or to the rain Less rain
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To a man geisha can only be half a wife
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We are the wives of nightfall
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And yet to learn of kindness
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after so much unkindness
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to understand that a little girl with more courage than she knew
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would find her prayers were answered
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can that not be called happiness
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After all
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these are not the memoirs of an empress nor of a queen
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These are memoirs of another kind
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Movie Summary
A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
