There's no such thing as forever.
Its a fact of being in love that we often pay no attention whatsoever to the substance of what a lover says, while being intoxicated to ecstasy by the way it's said. I was in love with her eyes, but I didn't read them. I loved her voice, but I didn't really hear the fear & the anguish in it.
I take everything personally- that's what being a person is all about.
Some of the worst wrongs, were caused by people who tried to change things.
The truth is a bully we all pretend to like
Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.
Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time.
Some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.
The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.
Didier once told me, in a rambling, midnight dissertation, that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.
The truth is that the man I am was born in those moments, as I stood near the flood sticks with my face lifted to the chrismal rain. Shantaram. The better man that, slowly, and much too late, I began to be.
But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no colour or accent or way of life. The soul is forever. The soul is one. And when the heart has its moment of truth and sorrow, the soul can't be stilled.
The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.
In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. And yet you must survive. It is this dilemma that makes us believe and cling to the lie that we have a soul, and that there is a God who cares about its fate.
When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.
Suffering is how we test our love especially our love for God.
but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.
While the foods were being prepared, I watched as men dragged a foot-operated grinding wheel into an open space, and the groom devoted a tense hour to putting a razor's edge to a large, ornate dagger. The bride's father watched that effort with a critical eye. After satisfying himself that the weapon was suitably lethal, he gravely accepted it as a gift from the younger man. The groom has just sharpened the knife that the bride's father will use on him, if he ever mistreats the girl.
Never let anyone know what you're thinking - always know what the other thinks of you.
It doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world.
Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.
Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.
Shantaram is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the first to be written. The third book is a sequel to Shantaram, the first a prequel.
The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.
The choking humidity makes amphibians of us all, in Bombay, breathing water in air; you learn to live with it, and you learn to like it, or you leave.
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