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1. "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" ~ Gregory David Roberts

2. "nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn't meant to be." ~ Gregory David Roberts

3. "They'd lied to me and betrayed me, leaving jagged edges where all my trust had been, and I didn't like or respect or admire them any more, but still I loved them. I had no choice. I understood that, perfectly, standing in the white wilderness of snow. You can't kill love. You can't even kill it with hate. You can kill in-love, and loving, and even loveliness. You can kill them all, or numb them into dense, leaden regret, but you can't kill love itself. Love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever. Every act of love, every moment of the heart reaching out, is a part of the universal good: it's a part of God, or what we call God, and it can never die." ~ Gregory David Roberts

4. "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." ~ Gregory David Roberts

5. "The weeks I'd spent in Bombay with Prabaker had taught me that the shaking or wiggling of the head from side to side—that most characteristic of Indian expressive gestures—was the equivalent of a forward nod of the head, meaning Yes." ~ Gregory David Roberts

6. "Aunque tardé mucho tiempo y tuve que recorrer gran parte del mundo para aprender lo que ahora sé sobre el amor, el destino y las decisiones que tomamos, la esencia de ese conocimiento me llegó en un solo instante, encadenado a una pared mientras me torturaban. De algún modo me di cuenta entonces, entre los gritos que llenaban mi cabeza, que incluso en aquella maniatada y sangrienta impotencia, seguía conservando mi libertad; la libertad de odiar a los hombres que me estaban torturando o de perdonarles. No parece mucho, lo sé, pero sometidos al dolor y al suplicio de las cadenas, cuando es lo único que tenemos, esa libertad es un universo de posibilidades. Y la decisión que tomemos, sea el odio o el perdón, puede convertirse en la historia de nuestra vida." ~ Gregory David Roberts

7. "Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we've loved them, left them, or fought them." ~ Gregory David Roberts

8. "I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it." ~ Gregory David Roberts

9. "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." ~ Gregory David Roberts

10. "I know now what was happening to me, what was overwhelming me, what was about to consume and almost destroy me. Didier had even given me a name for it - assassin grief, he'd once called it: the kind of grief that lies in wait and attacks you from ambush, with no warning and no mercy. I know now that assassin grief can hide for years and then strike suddenly on the happiest day, without discernible reason or exegesis. But on that day, ... almost a year after Khader's death, I couldn't understand the dark and trembling mood that was moving in me, swelling to the sorrow I'd too long denied. I couldn't understand it, so i tried to fight it as a man fights pain or despair. But you can't bite down on assassin grief and will it away. The enemy stalks you, step for step, and knows your every move before you make it. The enemy is your own grieving heart and, when it strikes, it can't miss." ~ Gregory David Roberts

11. "Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears." ~ Gregory David Roberts

12. "One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone." ~ Gregory David Roberts

13. "Every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret." ~ Gregory David Roberts

14. "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…" ~ Gregory David Roberts

15. "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." ~ Gregory David Roberts

16. "hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words" ~ Gregory David Roberts

17. "It doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world." ~ Gregory David Roberts

18. "The Indians are the Italians of Asia", Didier pronounced with a sage and mischievous grin. "It can be said, certainly, with equal justice, that the Italians are the Indians of Europe, but you do understand me, I think. There is so much Italian in the Indians, and so much Indians in the Italians. They are both people of the Madonna - they demand a goddess, even if the religion does not provide one. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman is a dancer when she walks to the shop at the corner. For them, food is music inside the body, and music is food inside the heart. The Language of India and the language of Italy, they make every man a poet, and make something beautiful from every banalite. They are nations where love - amore, pyaar - makes a cavalier of a Borsalino on a street corner, and makes a princess of a peasant girl, if only for the second that her eyes meet yours." ~ Gregory David Roberts

19. "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." ~ Gregory David Roberts

20. "Silences can wound as surely as the twisting lash." ~ Gregory David Roberts

21. "Motive matters more with good deeds than it does with bad." ~ Gregory David Roberts

22. "Manchmal lieben wir nur mit der Hoffnung. Manchmal weinen wir mit allem ausser Tränen. Und am Ende bleiben nur: Liebe und ihre Pflicht, Trauer und ihre Wahrheit. Am Ende haben wir nichts anderes - nichts anderes, woran wir uns festhalten können, bis der Morgen dämmert." ~ Gregory David Roberts

23. "The strength and wildness and will that I found in him were more and better than all the truth and goodness in the world. I pledged myself to him as brother and friend no matter what he'd done and no matter what he was." ~ Gregory David Roberts

24. "He was the little mouse that I'd trained and fed with crumbs in my prison cell; the mouse that was crucified." ~ Gregory David Roberts

25. "Be to, jei tikimes, kad mums kas nors išeis, noriu, kad nieko neliktu nepasakyta... apie praeiti." ~ Gregory David Roberts

26. "if we envy someone for all the right reasons, we're half way to wisdom." ~ Gregory David Roberts

27. "Now sadly there is attitude and no style." ~ Gregory David Roberts

28. "For all his wisdom, he did not know that love cannot be tested. Honesty can be tested and loyalty. But there is not test for love. Love goes on forever, once it begins, even if we come to hate the one we love. Love goes on forever because love is born in the part of us that does not die." ~ Gregory David Roberts

29. "I've been to Delhi, Madras, Bangalore and a lot of other cities, but I have never seen a crime set-up like that in Bombay." ~ Gregory David Roberts

30. "'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." ~ Gregory David Roberts

31. "A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him." ~ Gregory David Roberts

32. "Glory belongs to God, of course; that's what the word really means. And you can't serve God with a gun." ~ Gregory David Roberts

33. "For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push our brave hearts into the promise of a new day. With love; the passionate search for truth other than our own. With longing; the pure, ineffable yearning to be saved. For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on." ~ Gregory David Roberts

34. "The past reflects eternally between two mirrors -the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say." ~ Gregory David Roberts

35. "Wenn man einem Mann zeigt, wie nichtig seine Hoffnung und sein Hoffen war, tötet man den hellen bejahenden Teil in ihm, der geliebt werden möchte." ~ Gregory David Roberts

36. "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." ~ Gregory David Roberts

37. "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." ~ Gregory David Roberts

38. "What is it?" she asked. "I'm looking for your wings. You are my guardian angel, aren't you?" "I'm afraid not," she replied, her cheeks dimplingwith a wry smile. "There's too much of the devil in me for that." "Just how much devil," I grinned, "are we talking about here?" ~ Gregory David Roberts

39. "They are often brave, I'm sure, but they are stupid, too, because they give their lives for governments and causes that use their flesh and blood as mere chess pieces. Those governments always betray them or let them down in the long run. Nations neglect no men more shamefully than the heroes of their wars." ~ Gregory David Roberts

40. "They make a religion of being greedy." ~ Gregory David Roberts

41. "I heard a warning, deep within - we usually do , when something worse than we can imagine is stalking us, and set to pounce. Fate's way of beating us in a fair fight is to give us warnings that we hear, but never heed." ~ Gregory David Roberts

42. "I felt a darkness growing within me that was too numb for sorrow and too cold for rage." ~ Gregory David Roberts

43. "The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business." ~ Gregory David Roberts

44. "Every door is a portal leading through time as well as space. The same doorway that leads us into and out of a room also leads us into the past of the room and its ceaselessly unfolding future." ~ Gregory David Roberts

45. "Wenn einen das Schicksal nicht zum Lachen bringt, dann hat man den Witz nicht kapiert." ~ Gregory David Roberts

46. "Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see." ~ Gregory David Roberts

47. "She said I was interested in everything and committed to nothing." ~ Gregory David Roberts

48. "Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time." ~ Gregory David Roberts

49. "A young man didn't bring flowers or chocolates to the woman he loved: He brought her stories from the wider world, where men grappled with demons of desire, and monstrous injustice." ~ Gregory David Roberts

50. "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." ~ Gregory David Roberts

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