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• I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.

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  Crush, Powerful, Shantaram

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

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• Be true to love where ever you find it, and be true to yourself and everything that you really are.

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  Be True To Yourself, True To Yourself, Being True

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

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• The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.

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  Running, Stupid, Men

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.309, Macmillan

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• Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.

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  Heart, Body, Shantaram

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• Do you know the story of the scorpion and the frog? You know, the frog agrees to carry the scorpion across the river, because the scorpion promises not to sting him. And then the scorpion stings the frog, half way across the river. The drowning frog asks him why he did it, when they'll both drown, and the scorpion says that he's a scorpion, and it's his nature to sting.

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  Rivers, Promise, Half

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.59, Macmillan

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• The tears, when they come to some men, are worse than beatings. They're wounded worse by sobbing, men like that, than they are by boots and batons. Tears begin in the heart, but some of us deny the heart so often, and for so long, that when it speaks we hear not one but a hundred sorrows in the heartbreak. We know that crying is a good and natural thing. We know that crying isn't a weakness, but a kind of strength. Still, the weeping rips us root by tangled root from the earth, and we crash like fallen trees when we cry.

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  Rip, Heart, Men

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.563, Macmillan

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• You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.

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  Differences, Gossip, People

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.321, Macmillan

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• Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.

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  Shantaram, Myth, New Things

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• Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.

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  Done, Fists, Palms

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.798, Macmillan

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• Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

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  I Love You, Happiness, Heartbreak

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.37, Macmillan

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• There's a truth deeper than experience. It's beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It's an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception. We're helpless, usually, in the face of it; and the cost of knowing it, like the cost of knowing love, is sometimes greater than any heart would willingly pay. It doesn't always help us to love the world, but it does prevent us from hating the world. And the only way to know that truth is to share it, from heart to heart, just as Prabhakar told it to me, just as I'm telling it to you now.

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  Clever, Hate, Heart

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

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• The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. - Karla

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  Real, Want, Succeed

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

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• A wise man once told me- he’s a muslim by the way- that he has more in common with a jew than he does a fanatic of his own religion. He has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Christian or a Buddhist or Hindu than he does with a fanatic of his own religion. In fact, he has more in common with a ration, reasonable-minded atheist than he does with a fanatic of his own religion

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  Christian, Wise, Buddhist

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• Some loves are like that. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, & your self-respect & independence. After a while you start throwing people out - friends, everyone you know. & it's still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, & you know it's going to take you down with it. I've seen that happen to a lot of people. I think that's why I'm sick of love. - Karla

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  Heart, Pride, Thinking

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• I think the future is like anything else that's important. It has to be earned. If we don't earn it, we don't have a future at all. And if we don't earn it, we don't deserve it, we have to live in the present, more or less forever. Or worse, we have to live in the past. I think that's probably what love is - a way of earning the future.

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  Past, Love Is, Thinking

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.85, Macmillan

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• when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.

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  Judging, Enemy, Shantaram

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.53, Macmillan

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• I think that it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering. I think that when we grow up, and learn that happiness is rare, and passes quickly, we become disillusioned and hurt. And how much we suffer is a mark of how much we have been hurt by this realisation. Suffering, you see, is a kind of anger. We rage against the unfairness, the injustice of our sad and sorry lot.

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  Hurt, Growing Up, Sorry

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.262, Macmillan

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• Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do.

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  Fate, Two, Giving

  Gregory David Roberts (2012). “Shantaram”, p.523, Hachette UK

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• There's a theory that snoring at night in sleep is a subconscious defence reflex-a warning sound that frightened potential predators away from the mouth of the cave when our lower-paleolithic ancestors huddled in vulnerable sleep. That group of nomads, cameleers, sheep and goat herders, farmers, and guerilla fighters lent credibility to the idea, for they snored so thunderously and with such persistent ferocity through the long, cold night that they would've frightened a pride of ravenous lions into scattering like startled mice.

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  Sleep, Pride, Night

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• Praising people behind their back is monstrously unfair, because the one thing you can't defend yourself against is the good that people say about you.

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  People, Shantaram, Praise

  Gregory David Roberts (2012). “Shantaram”, p.408, Hachette UK

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• Nothing in the world is so soft and pleasing to the touch, as the skin of a woman's thigh. No flower, feather or fabric, can match that velvet whisper of flesh. No matter how unequal they may be in any other ways, all women, old and young, fat and thin, beautiful and ugly, have that perfection. It's a great part of the reason why men hunger to possess women, and so often convince themselves that they do possess them: the thigh, that touch.

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  Beautiful, Flower, Men

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• The contrast between the familiar and the exceptional was everywhere around me. A bullock cart was drawn up beside a modern sports car at a traffic signal. A man squatted to relieve himself behind the discreet shelter of a satellite dish. An electric forklift truck was being used to unload goods from an ancient wooden cart with wooden wheels. The impression was of a plodding indefatigable and distant past that had crashed intact through barriers of time into its own future. I liked it.

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  Sports, Past, Men

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.14, Macmillan

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• Justice is a judgement that is both fair and forgiving. Justice is not done until everyone is satisfied, even those who offend us and must be punished by us. You can see, by what we have done with these two boys, that justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

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  Boys, Two, Justice

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.205, Macmillan

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• Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that’s all there is: love and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that’s all we have - to hold on tight until the dawn

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  Sorrow, Tears, Dawn

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.307, Macmillan

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• nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.

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  Grieving, Great Love, Half

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.330, Macmillan

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