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• Friendship is also a kind of medicine, and the markets for it, too, are sometimes black.

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  Medicine, Black, Kind

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.193, Macmillan

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• We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.

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  Forgiving, Shantaram

  "Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

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• Silence is the tortured man's revenge.

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  Revenge, Men, Silence

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.357, Macmillan

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• I don't know what frightens me more

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  Shantaram, Knows

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.299, Macmillan

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• I know now that when the loving, honest moment comes it should be seized, and spoken, because it may never come again. And unvoiced, unmoving, unlived in the things we declare form heart to heart, those true and real feelings wither and crumble in the remembering hand that tries too late to reach for them.

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  Real, Heart, Hands

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.773, St. Martin's Press

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• Powerful people have no regrets.

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  Powerful, Regret, People

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• There’s too much love in the world. Sometimes I think that’s what heaven is---- a place where everybody’s happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.

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  Thinking, Heaven, World

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.235, Macmillan

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• The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, your heart always guides you more wisely than your head. There's nowhere else in the world where that's quite so true.

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  Heart, Simple, People

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.35, Macmillan

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• The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.

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  Suffering, Shantaram, Burden

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.263, Macmillan

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• The touch was exactly what the touch of a lover's hand should be: familiar, yet exciting as a whispered promise. I felt an almost irresistible urge to take her hand and place it flat against my chest, near my heart. Maybe I should've done it. I know now that she would've laughed, if I'd done it, and she would've liked me for it. But strangers that we were then, we stood for five long seconds and held the stare, while all the parallel worlds, all the parallel lives that might've been, and never would be, whirled around us.

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  Heart, Hands, Long

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.24, Macmillan

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• A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.

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  Men, Shantaram, Enough

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• There's no such thing as forever.

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  Forever

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.89, Macmillan

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• Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around

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  Men, Thinking, Looks

  "Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

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• Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.

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  Cousin, Real, Like Love

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.84, Macmillan

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• I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.

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  Writing, Thinking, Criminals

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• People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.

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  Love Is, Opposites, People

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• 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.

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  Dream, Wish, Rambling

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.137, Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Eye, Being In Love, Voice

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.452, St. Martin's Press

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• 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.

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  Rain, Men, Too Late

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.125, Macmillan

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• What is it?" she asked. "I'm looking for your wings. You are my guardian angel, aren't you?" "I'm afraid not," she replied, her cheeks dimplingwith a wry smile. "There's too much of the devil in me for that." "Just how much devil," I grinned, "are we talking about here?

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  Angel, Wry Smile, Talking

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• The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.

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  Voice, Half, Afghan

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.25, Macmillan

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• Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.

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  Tests, Algebra

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• but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.

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  Misuse, Immune, Nations

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.45, Macmillan

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• Glory belongs to God, of course; that's what the word really means. And you can't serve God with a gun.

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  Mean, Gun, Glory

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.695, Macmillan

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• It doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world.

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  Hate, Doe, World

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.77, Macmillan

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