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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7ea675d | Akt otmshcheniia, kak i polovoi akt, dolzhen proizvodit'sia s chuvstvom, s tolkom, s rasstanovkoi. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 98ab0d2 | Chelovek, kotoryi nikuda ne speshit, nikuda ne popadaet>>. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 8b8706e | An amateur is anyone who hasn't learned how not to do it,' I said. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 38195d6 | If reputations were votes, we'd be presidents of somewhere. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 78ae9c8 | 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 | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 64acbc8 | 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. | happiness inspirational love spiritual | Gregory David Roberts | |
| 418f90e | 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.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 8bf2341 | 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. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 19ec5f7 | 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 .. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 8f8f05e | If you're not living for something, you're dying for nothing! | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| dbf212b | Divorce is healthier than the stock exchange, and way more predictable. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| a6b6a6c | Everything you ever sense, in touch or taste or sight or even thought, has an effect on you that's greater than zero. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 9a0a7bf | You marry them,' Blue Hijab said, 'hoping they'll change, and grow. And they marry us, hoping that we won't. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 97cbd1b | 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 .. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 003be06 | 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? | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 89279dd | The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling, and | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| fbe298e | 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. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| eaa8fd1 | When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward. | Ambrose Bierce | ||
| b323ed7 | 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. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| f09c7d0 | 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. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| a584d9b | When we do suffer things, like pain and so, it means that we have lost control. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| e9d53c9 | 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.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 4563002 | We can compel men not to be bad, but we cannot compel them to be good, don't you find? | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 706284e | 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. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 80525d0 | 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. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| e56a637 | 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. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| a873eee | The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business. But | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 6db707c | It was the kind of laugh that hunted down funny things, and killed them stone dead. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 183e631 | 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. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 5db561f | 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. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 5506304 | I don't know what scares me more,' she declared, 'the madness that smashes people down, or their ability to endure it. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| ae6fd82 | 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 | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 80834c1 | India is a nation of singers whose first love is the kind of song we turn to when crying just isn't enough. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 7ef85ea | 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 .. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 7cfa948 | 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.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| eac0479 | because justice is a judgement that is both fair and forgiving. Justice is not done until everyone is satisfied, | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 1308510 | the lion must roar, just to remind the horse of his fear. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| d9b8bd2 | Da chakash za nishcho, tova ubiva dushata na choveka, nali taka? | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| ff615a8 | Ako s'dbata ne te razsmiva -- beshe mi kazala Karla v edin ot p'rvite ni razgovori -- ti prosto ne skhvashchash shegata. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| da5d024 | 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. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 742e6d0 | Mozhem da zad'lzhim khorata da ne b'dat loshi, no ne mozhem da gi zad'lzhim da b'dat dobri, ne namirate li? | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 76b3a36 | 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. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 2c77fe4 | Niama po-krasivo proiavlenie na viarata ot shchedrostta na nai-bednite | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 25150c9 | Imame edna pogovorka na persiiski -- Poniakoga l'v't triabva da izreve samo za da napomni na konia, che go e strakh. | Gregory David Roberts |