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• A city may be dirty on the outside but is clean on the inside. Many cities in the world are clean on the outside but dirty on the inside.

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  Dirty, Cities, World

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• every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities.

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  Heart, Possibility, Beats

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• While I was chained to a wall and being tortured, I realized, through the screaming of my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It doesn't sound like much, I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when it's all you've got, that freedom is a universe of possibility. And the choice you make between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.

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  Wall, Hate, Men

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• Oh, of course, naturally, God is impossible. That is the first proof that he exists." Nothing exists as we see it. Nothing we see is really there, as we think we are seeing it. Our eyes are liars. Everything that seems real, is merely part of the illusion.

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  Real, Liars, Eye

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• The truth is that there are no good men, or bad men,' he said. 'It is the deeds that have goodness or badness in them. There are good deeds, and bad deeds. Men are just men - it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The truth is that an instant of real love, in the heart of anyone - the noblest man alive or the most wicked - has the whole purpose and process and meaning of life within the lotus-folds of its passion. The truth is that we are all, every one of us, every atom, every galaxy, and every particle of matter in the universe, moving toward God.

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  Real, Moving, Passion

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.179, Macmillan

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• The amount of force and violence necessary to board the train, for example was no less and no more than the amoount of politeness and consideration necessary to ensure that the cramped journey was as pleasant as possible afterwards. What is necessary? That was the unspoken but implied, and unavoidable question everywhere in India.

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  Journey, Violence, India

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• A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn’t really that bad until someone tried to change it.

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  World, Stuff, Shantaram

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.90, Macmillan

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• Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.

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  Brother, Pride, Blood

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.206, Macmillan

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• The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.

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  Finding Yourself, Trying, Way

  Gregory David Roberts (2012). “Shantaram”, p.509, Hachette UK

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• You can never tell what people have inside them until you start taking it away, one hope at a time

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  People, Shantaram

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

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• The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering.

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  Suffering, Lovers, Shantaram

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.343, Macmillan

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• If we can't respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can't use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose.

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  Purpose, Use, Way

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• Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn’t, let ourselves become. Sooner or later we meet the drunkard, the waster, the betrayer, the ruthless mind, and the hate-filled heart. But fate loads the dice, of course, because we usually find ourselves loving or pitying almost all of those people. And it’s impossible to despise someone you honestly pity, and to shun someone you truly love.

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  Hate, Heart, Fate

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• Anything that can be put in a nut shell should remain there.

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  Nuts, Shells, Should

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

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• It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.

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  Hurt, Secret, Shantaram

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.402, Macmillan

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• Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

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  Soldier, Shantaram, Endure

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.525, Macmillan

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• hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words

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  Hate, Real, Literature

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.367, Macmillan

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• And money, if the pile gets high enough, is something like a big political party: it does as much harm as it does good, it puts too much power in too few hands, and the closer you come to it the dirtier you get.

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  Party, Hands, Political

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

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• The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling ,and sewn with rebus threads.Most of the time , the best we can do is wrap it around ourselves for comfort or drag it behind us as we struggle to go on .

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  Struggle, Cutting, Past

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.765, Macmillan

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• The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.

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  Cynical, Shantaram, Bigs

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

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• Every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret.

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  Dark, Secret, Inspired

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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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