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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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• 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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• Powerful people have no regrets.

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  Powerful, Regret, People

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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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• 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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• 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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• We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years.

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  Men, Eight, Years

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.48, 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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• Once you love something, you can never stop loving it. Even after a divorce, the heart will not stop loving.

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  Heart, Divorce, Never Stop Loving

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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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• 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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• It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\

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  Wall, Heart, Fate

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.7, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• Some of the worst wrongs, were caused by people who tried to change things.

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  People, Shantaram, Worst

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.325, Macmillan

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• I take everything personally- that's what being a person is all about.

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  Persons

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.220, Macmillan

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• So when will be the time to get on the train? I think.....a little bit almost quite very soon and not long.

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  Thinking, Long, Littles

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.93, Macmillan

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• Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.

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  Heart, Dark, Risk

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

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