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The ancient Sanskrit legends speak of a destined love, a karmic connection between souls that are fated to meet and collide and enrapture one another. The legends say that the loved one is instantly recognised because she's loved in every gesture, every expression of thought, every movement, every sound, and every mood that prays in her eyes. The legends say that we know her by her wings--the wings that only we can see--and because wanting ..
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Will you help us, Lin? We feel very sorry for that bear. Love is a special thing in the world. When two men have so much love in their hearts, even so it is for a bear, it must be protected, isn't it?
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The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling, and
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You can't hate love, Karla,' I said, laughing gently, and trying to lighten her mood. 'Maybe not, but you sure as hell can be sick of it. It's such a huge arrogance, to love someone, and there's too much of it around. 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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At first, on that first journey out of the city into India, I found such sudden politeness infuriating after the violent scramble to board the train. It seemed hypocritical for them to show such deferential concern over a nudge with a foot when, minutes before, they'd all but pushed one another out of the windows.
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When we act, even with the best of intentions, when we interfere with the world, we always risk a new disaster that mightn't be of our making, but that wouldn't occur without our action.
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When we do suffer things, like pain and so, it means that we have lost control.
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I think I'd like a short, direct answer to every question,' I replied, laughing. He raised an eyebrow at the foolishness of my flippant response and then shook his head slowly. 'Do you know the English philosopher Bertrand Russell? Have you read any of his books?' 'Yeah. I read some of his stuff--at university, and in prison.' 'He was a favourite of my dear Mr. Mackenzie Esquire,' Khader smiled. 'I do not often agree with Bertrand Russell's..
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We can compel men not to be bad, but we cannot compel them to be good, don't you find?
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We'd saved him as much by joining in his exultation as we had by witnessing his shame. And all of it depended upon our action, our interference in his life, because no man is saved without love.
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I surrendered to India, as I did every day, then, and as I still do, every day of my life, no matter where I am in the world.
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I`d developed a style in dealing with foreigners that won their trust quickly. That style was two parts showman, two parts flatterer, and one part philanderer, combined with a hint of mischief, a sniff of condescension, and a pinch of contempt.
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The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business. But
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It was the kind of laugh that hunted down funny things, and killed them stone dead.
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I'd always thought that fate was something unchangeable: fixed for every one of us at birth, and as constant as the circuit of the stars. But I suddenly realised that life is stranger and more beautiful than that. The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love.
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Fanatics, of all kinds, all have the same scrubbed and staring look about them, the look of people who do not masturbate, but who think about it almost all the time.
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I don't know what scares me more,' she declared, 'the madness that smashes people down, or their ability to endure it.
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Her eyes were large and spectacularly green. It was the green that trees are, in vivid dreams. It was the green that the sea would be, if the sea were perfect. Her
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India is a nation of singers whose first love is the kind of song we turn to when crying just isn't enough.
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Taka shche e spravedlivo -- obiavi Kasim Ali onazi vecher, a ochite mu s tsviat na d'rvesna kora gledakha meko mladezhite, -- zashchoto spravedlivostta e pretsenka, ednovremenno chestna i oproshchavashcha. Ne mozhe da ima spravedlivost, dokato vsichki ne ostanat dovolni dori i tezi, koito ni obizhdat i triabva da si ponesat nakazanieto ot nas. Ot nachina, po koito post'pikhme s dvete momcheta, vizhdate, che pravos'dieto ne e samo nachin da ..
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Stisnakh z'bi sreshchu zvezdite. Zatvorikh ochi. Otdadokh se na s'nia. Edna ot prichinite da kopneem za liubov i da ia t'rsim taka otchaiano e, che liubovta e edinstveniiat lek za samotata, i za srama, i za m'kata. No niakoi chuvstva se spotaivat tolkova d'lboko v s'rtseto, che samo samotata mozhe da ti pomogne da gi namerish otnovo. Niakoi istini za samiia teb sa tolkova bolezneni, che samo sram't mozhe da ti pomogne da zhiveesh s tiakh. A..
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because justice is a judgement that is both fair and forgiving. Justice is not done until everyone is satisfied,
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the lion must roar, just to remind the horse of his fear.
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Da chakash za nishcho, tova ubiva dushata na choveka, nali taka?
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Ako s'dbata ne te razsmiva -- beshe mi kazala Karla v edin ot p'rvite ni razgovori -- ti prosto ne skhvashchash shegata.
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Togava, prez onazi p'rva sutrin, ne proumiavakh vr'zkata. Ne skhvashchakh shegata i s'dbata ne me razsmivashe. No znaekh, che ima neshcho -- niakak'v smis'l, niakakvo prednaznachenie, koeto me e dovelo na tova miasto, pri tazi rabota, tochno v tozi moment.
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Mozhem da zad'lzhim khorata da ne b'dat loshi, no ne mozhem da gi zad'lzhim da b'dat dobri, ne namirate li?
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Vsichki znaekha, che tam igraiat rushveti. Vsichki znaekha za predupreditelnite obazhdaniia. Vseki pecheleshe -- ot tova i vsichki biakha dovolni. Nai-loshoto neshcho na koruptsiiata kato sistema za upravlenie, kaza vedn'zh Didie, e tova, che raboti tolkova dobre.
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Niama po-krasivo proiavlenie na viarata ot shchedrostta na nai-bednite
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Imame edna pogovorka na persiiski -- Poniakoga l'v't triabva da izreve samo za da napomni na konia, che go e strakh.
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Nishcho ne s'shchestvuva taka, kakto go vizhdame. Nishcho ot onova, koeto vizhdame, ne e naistina takova, kakvoto si mislim, che go vizhdame. Ochite ni sa l'zhtsi. Vsichko, koeto izglezhda istinsko, e prosto chast ot iliuziiata. Nishcho ne s'shchestvuva taka, kakto nie go mislim.
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Razumniiat chovek e prosto po-dob'r l'zhets ot ludiia. Vie s Abdula ste bratia. Znam go. Ochite vi l'zhat i vi kazvat, che tova ne e taka. I vie viarvate v tazi l'zha, zashchoto taka e po-lesno. -- I taka li zapazvame razuma si? -- Da.
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s'dbata ima nad nas p'lna vlast, kato izkliuchim dve neshcha. S'dbata ne mozhe da kontrolira nashata svobodna volia i ne mozhe da l'zhe. Khorata l'zhat poveche sebe si, otkolkoto drugite, i l'zhat drugite po-chesto, otkolkoto im kazvat istinata. No s'dbata ne l'zhe.
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News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.
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Tv'rdia, che deistvitelnostta -- takava, kakvato ia vizhdate i kakvato ia vizhdat povecheto khora -- ne e nishcho poveche ot iliuziia. Ima druga realnost otv'd onova, koeto vizhdame s ochite si. I triabva da _pochuvstvash_ p'tia k'm tazi realnost s's s'rtseto si. Drug nachin niama.
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Every human heartbeat, he'd said many times, is a universe of possibilities.
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az mislia, che stradanieto e sposob't, chrez koito podlagame na izpitanie liubovta si. Vsiako stradanie, bez znachenie dali e drebno, ili m'chitelno goliamo, v niakak'v smis'l e izpitanie na liubovta. V povecheto sluchai stradanieto e s'shcho i izpitanie na nashata obich k'm Boga.
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Nadiavakh se niakoi v bordeia da chuia oglushitelniia shum i da se priteche na pomoshch. Nali s'shchiiat tozi lai ot pokraininite be budil i men posred noshch sto p'ti. I sto p'ti se obr'shchakh na drugata strana i zaspivakh otnovo, bez izobshcho da se zamislia.
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Poniakoga nie obichame samo s nadezhda. Poniakoga plachem s vsichko drugo, no ne i s's s'lzi. V kraia na kraishchata, tova e vsichko -- obichta i neiniiat d'lg, m'kata i neinata istina. V kraia na kraishchata, tova e vsichko, koeto imame, za da se vkopchim v nego, dokato s'mne.
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Znaesh kakva e razlikata mezhdu novina i kliuka, nali? Novinite ti s'obshchavat kakvo_ sa pravili khorata. Kliukite -- dokolko sa se izkefili.
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Dali niakoga izobshcho post'pkite ni sa opravdani?_ Tozi v'pros ne mi davashe da spia d'lgo, sled kato vidiakh iztezavanoto mishle. Kogato deistvame, dori i ot nai-dobri podbudi, kogato se mesim na sveta, vinagi riskuvame tova da dovede do novo zlo, koeto mozhe i da ne e nashe delo, no niamashe da go ima bez storenoto ot nas. ,,Niakoi ot nai-golemite zlini -- kaza vedn'zh Karla -- sa prichineni ot khorata, koito sa se opitvali da promeniat ..
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zashchoto bez obich nikoi ne e spasen. ,,Kakvo e po-kharakterno za chovechestvoto: zhestokostta ili sposobnostta da se sramuvame ot neia?" -- popita me niakoga Karla. Kogato za pr'v p't chukh v'prosa, toi mi se stori tv'rde umen i pronitsatelen. No sega s'm po-samoten i pom'drial i znam, che nito zhestokostta, nito sram't okharakterizirat chovechestvoto. Proshkata -- tia ni pravi onova, koeto sme. Bez proshka nashiiat biologichen vid shches..
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A i biakh nauchil po trudniia nachin, che poniakoga, dori i da deistvame ot nai-chisti podbudi i da pravim vsichko v'zmozhno, za da podobrim polozhenieto, samo vloshavame neshchata oshche poveche.
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Migove, koito naum narekokh velichestveni, dokato tichakh k'm streliashchite dula; tezi glupavo pogubeni zhivoti, tozi priiatelski og'n. V tova niamashe velichie. I nikoga niama. Ima samo khrabrost i strakh, i obich. A voinata gi ubiva vsichkite -- edno po edno. Velichieto prinadlezhi na Boga, razbira se -- tazi duma vs'shchnost znachi tochno tova. A ne mozhesh da sluzhish na Bog s pushka.
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