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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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• 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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• Powerful people have no regrets.

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  Powerful, Regret, People

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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 went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else's hate, or love, or indifference.

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  Hate, War, Mistake

  Gregory David Roberts (2012). “Shantaram”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• at first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. what we should fear and dread, of course, is that we wont stop loving them, even after they are dead and gone. for i still love you with the whole of my heart. i still love you. and sometimes, my friend, the love that i have and cant give to you, crushed the breast from my chest. soemtimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.

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  Stars, Laughter, Love You

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.553, Macmillan

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• A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.

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  Strong, Men, Good Man

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.567, Macmillan

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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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• But I smiled, and smiling was easy, no matter how strange and disorienting the street seemed to be. I was a fugitive. I was a wanted man, a hunted man, with a price on my head. And I was still one step ahead of them. I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.

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  Running, Men, Stories

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.23, Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Heart, Forever, Soul

  Gregory David Roberts (2012). “Shantaram”, p.83, Hachette UK

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• When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, 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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• 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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• 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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  Air, Breathing, Water

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan

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• The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.

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  Simple, Men, Perfect

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.9, Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Book, Firsts, Shantaram

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