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The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.
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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.
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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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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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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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Friendship is also a kind of medicine, and the markets for it, too, are sometimes black.
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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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I take everything personally- that's what being a person is all about.
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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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Of course I wanted to know. I was a writer. I wanted to know everything.
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The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.
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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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Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.
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The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.
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We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.
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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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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?
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The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. - Karla
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.
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Gregory David Roberts
Born:
June 21, 1952
(age 71)
Bio:
Gregory David Roberts is an Australian author best known for his novel Shantaram. He is a former heroin addict and convicted bank robber who escaped from Pentridge Prison in 1980 and fled to India, where he lived for ten years.
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