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• There's no believing in God...We either know God, or we don't.

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  Believe, Shantaram, Knowing God

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

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• Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child

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  Children, Hands, Inspire

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.287, Macmillan

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• A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man.

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  Winning, Men, Good Woman

  Gregory David Roberts (2012). “Shantaram”, p.376, Hachette UK

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• Love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever.

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  Love Is, Forever, Passionate

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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 won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone.

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  Greatest Fear, Gone, Firsts

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

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• There's no heart like the Indian heart.

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  Heart, Shantaram, Indian

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.403, Macmillan

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• Ask people for help. You'll be all right. Don't worry. It's a great adventure, your life, and it has only just begun.

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  Adventure, People, Worry

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.421, Macmillan

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• I look back, now, and I know that the naming moment, which seemed so insignificant then, which seemed to demand no more than an arbitrary and superstitious yes or no, was in fact a pivotal moment in my life.

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  Demand, Facts, Pivotal Moments

  Gregory David Roberts (2012). “Shantaram”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.

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  Civilization, Shantaram, Permit

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.50, Macmillan

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• A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water

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  Bridges, Water, Promise

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• We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.

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  Ocean, Blood, Sweat

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.331, Macmillan

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• Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.

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  Hate, Fate, Men

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.358, Macmillan

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• 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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  Justice, Trying, Way

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

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• The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.

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  Sex, Revenge, Eye

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.707, Macmillan

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• There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.

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  War, Fighting, Men

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• Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise.

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  Thinking, Years, Tests

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

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• Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.

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  Hero, Dubious, Three

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.773, Macmillan

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• 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, Stories, Happy Endings

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

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• That's how they manage to live together, a billion of them, in reasonable peace. They are not perfect, of course. They know how to fight and lie and cheat each other, and all the things that all of us do. But more than any other people in the world, the Indians know how to love one another.

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  Lying, Fighting, People

  Gregory David Roberts (2012). “Shantaram”, p.61, Hachette UK

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• Sometimes, you have to surrender before you win.

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  Winning, Sometimes, Surrender

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

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• Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again.

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  Loneliness, Heart, Feelings

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.114, Macmillan

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• Of course I wanted to know. I was a writer. I wanted to know everything.

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  Wanted, Courses, Knows

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.311, Macmillan

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• Let me explain something to you. Look around here. How many people do you count? Sixty, eighty, eighty people? Greeks, Germans, Italians, French, Americans. Tourists from everywhere. Eating, drinking, talking, laughing. And from Bombay - Indians and Iranians and Afghans and Arabs and Africans. But how many of these people have real power, real destiny, real dynamic for their place, and their time, and the lives of thousand of people? I will tell you - four. Four people in this room with power, and the rest are like the rest of the people everywhere: powerless, sleepers in the dream.

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  Dream, Real, Drinking

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• They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed. That's where loves, like elephants, drag themselves to die. It's the place where pride allows itself to cry.

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  Heart, Pride, Elephants

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.527, Macmillan

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• You are not a man until you give your love, truly and freely to a child. And you are not a good man until you earn the love, truly and freely, of a child in return.

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  Children, Men, Giving

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.312, Macmillan

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