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And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.
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Gregory David Roberts |
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Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting.
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Gregory David Roberts |
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Every human heartbeat is a universe of possibilities.
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Gregory David Roberts |
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Silences can wound as surely as the twisting lash, the poet Sadiq Khan once wrote. But sometimes, being silent is the only way to tell the truth.
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Gregory David Roberts |
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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. But everything has its cause and its meaning. 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. Sometimes, we see the past ..
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Gregory David Roberts |
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The wonder and sustaining solace of it all is that were not alone: we're never alone if we live and we journey onward to new cities, new adventures and new dreams in the search for meaning, and purpose, and love.
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Gregory David Roberts |
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When you know you're going to die, there's no comfort in cleverness. Genius is vain, and cleverness is hollow, at the end. The comfort that does come, if it comes at all, is that strangely marbled mix of time and place and feeling that we usually call wisdom.
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Gregory David Roberts |
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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 shcheshe da se samounishchozhi v bezkraini otm'shcheniia.
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Gregory David Roberts |
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She did it for him. She would've done anything for him. Some women are like that. Some loves are like that. Most loves are like that, from what I can see. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and your independence. After a while you start throwing people out--your friends, everyone you used to know. And it's still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, ..
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Gregory David Roberts |
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Black money runs through the fingers faster than legal, hard-earned money. 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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Gregory David Roberts |
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Karla once said that men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, she said, it's the other way around.
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Gregory David Roberts |
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At the moment, most of our ways of defining the unit of morality are similar in their intentions, but they differ in their details. So the priests of one nation bless their soldiers as they march to war, and the imams of another country bless their soldiers as they march out to meet them. And everybody who is involved in the killing, says that he has God on his side. There is no objective and universally acceptable definition of good and ev..
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Gregory David Roberts |
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The universe,' he continued, 'this universe that we know, began in almost absolute simplicity, and it has been getting more complex for about fifteen billion years. In another billion years it will be still more complex than it is now. In five billion, in ten billion--it is always getting more complex. It is moving toward ... something. It is moving toward some kind of ultimate complexity. We might not get there. An atom of hydrogen might n..
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Gregory David Roberts |
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it's just as important to know that sometimes, no matter how wrong it is, you can't change it. A lot of the bad stuff in the world wasn't really that bad until someone tried to change it.
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Gregory David Roberts |
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a man has to draw the line somewhere. Civilisation, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.
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Gregory David Roberts |
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Tell us Lin. I would like to know." "Well, if you press me, I'd have to say freedom." "The freedom to do what?" he asked, putting a little laugh in the last word. "I don't know. Maybe just the freedom to say no. If you've got that much freedom, you really don't need any more."
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Gregory David Roberts |
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But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in is precisely because it isn't wise.
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Gregory David Roberts |
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There is no act of faith more beautiful than the generosity of the very poor
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Gregory David Roberts |
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How can you sit next to this filthy gay?' he asked me. 'It's called gravity,' I said. 'Look it up, when you have an afternoon to spare.
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Gregory David Roberts |
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My culture had taught me all the wrong things well. So I lay completely still, and gave no reaction at all. But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no colour or accent or way of life. The soul is forever. The soul is one. And when the heart has its moment of truth and sorrow, the soul can't be stilled.
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Gregory David Roberts |
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Bad cops are bad priests', she said. 'All confession, and no absolution.
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Gregory David Roberts |
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There's no heart like the Indian heart.
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Gregory David Roberts |
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The past is a novel, written by Fate, weaving the same themes: love and its glory, hate and its prisoners, the soul and its price. Our decisions become narratives: fated choices that unknowably change the course of the living river. In the present, where decisions and connections are made, Fate waits on the riverbank of Story, leaving us to our mistakes and miracles, because it's our will alone that leads us to one or the other.
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fate
past
hope
love
glory
prison
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Gregory David Roberts |
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The first rule of black business everywhere is: never let anyone know what you're thinking. Didier's corollary to the rule was: always know what the other thinks of you.
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Gregory David Roberts |
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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. Some of the worst wrongs, Karla once said, were caused by people who tried to change things. I
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Gregory David Roberts |
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I was thinking about another kind of river, one that runs through every one of us, no matter where we come from, all over the world. It's the river of the heart, and the heart's desire. It's the pure, essential truth of what each one of us is, and can achieve. All
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Gregory David Roberts |
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But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in us precisely because it isn't wise.
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Gregory David Roberts |
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Well,' I laughed, 'I certainly don't know God, and frankly I'm inclined to think that God is impossible to believe in, at least most of the notions of God that I've come across.' 'Oh, of course, naturally, God is impossible. That is the first proof that He exists.' He
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Gregory David Roberts |
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Razbirate li, stradanieto e vid gniav. Nie se gnevim sreshchu nespravedlivostta, nepravdata na nashata t'zhna, okaiana uchast. I tova kipiashcho negoduvanie, razbirate li, tozi gniav, e onova, koeto narichame stradanie.
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Gregory David Roberts |
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Kazhdyi udar chelovecheskogo serdtsa -- eto tselaia vselennaia vozmozhnostei.
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Gregory David Roberts |
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Takoi byvaet liubov'. ... Tvoe serdtse stanovitsia pokhozhim na peregruzhennuiu spasatel'nuiu shliupku. Chtoby ne utonut', ty vybrasyvaesh' za bort svoiu gordost' i samouvazhenie, svoiu nezavisimost'. A spustia kakoe-to vremia ty nachinaesh' vybrasyvat' liudei -- svoikh druzei i vsekh prochikh, kogo znal godami. No i eto ne spasaet. Shliupka pogruzhaetsia vse glubzhe, i ty znaesh', chto skoro ona utonet i ty vmeste s nei.
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Gregory David Roberts |
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Akt otmshcheniia, kak i polovoi akt, dolzhen proizvodit'sia s chuvstvom, s tolkom, s rasstanovkoi.
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Gregory David Roberts |
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Chelovek, kotoryi nikuda ne speshit, nikuda ne popadaet>>.
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Gregory David Roberts |
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An amateur is anyone who hasn't learned how not to do it,' I said.
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Gregory David Roberts |
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If reputations were votes, we'd be presidents of somewhere.
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Gregory David Roberts |
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Personality and personal identity are in some ways like co-ordinates on the street map drawn by our intersecting relationships. We know who we are and we define what we are by references to the people we love and our reasons for loving them. I
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Gregory David Roberts |
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I'd learned more about her in that exhausted, murmuring hour than in all the many months before it. Lovers find their way by such insights and confidences: they're the stars we use to navigate the ocean of desire. And the brightest of those stars are the heartbreaks and sorrows. The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering. So I took each sadness she confessed to me, and pinned it to the sky.
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spiritual
happiness
love
inspirational
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Gregory David Roberts |
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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. Now, long years and many journeys after that first ride on a crowded rural train, I know that the scrambled fighting and courteous deference were both expressions of the one philosophy: the doctrine of necessity. The amount of force and violence necessary to board the train, fo..
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Gregory David Roberts |
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I mean, that faggot, think about it. If the whole world was like him, the human race would die out.' 'And if the whole world was like you, Concannon, we'd deserve to.
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Gregory David Roberts |
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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 as we struggle to go on. But everything has its cause and its meaning. 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. Sometimes, we see the past so ..
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Gregory David Roberts |
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If you're not living for something, you're dying for nothing!
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Gregory David Roberts |
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Divorce is healthier than the stock exchange, and way more predictable.
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Gregory David Roberts |
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Everything you ever sense, in touch or taste or sight or even thought, has an effect on you that's greater than zero.
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Gregory David Roberts |
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You marry them,' Blue Hijab said, 'hoping they'll change, and grow. And they marry us, hoping that we won't.
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Gregory David Roberts |