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| b1b82aa | It seemed impossible that a modern airport, full of prosperous and purposeful travellers, was only kilometres away from those crushed and cindered dreams. My first impression was that some catastrophe had taken place, and that the slums were refugee camps for the shambling survivors. I learned, months later, that they were survivors, of course, those slum-dwellers: the catastrophes that had driven them to the slums from their villages were .. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 450ae43 | Cruel laughter is the way cowards cry when they're not alone, and causing pain is how they grieve. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| f801c73 | The cops watched me and the Georges and the other foreigners who worked the streets, and they knew exactly what we were doing. They reasoned, truly enough, that we caused no violent harm, and we were good for business in the black market that brought them bribes and other benefits. They took their cut from the drug and currency dealers. They left us alone. They left me alone. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 5142c19 | The truth is a bully we all pretend to like/ | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 3cd0c80 | Glory belongs to God, of course; that's what the word really means. And you can't serve God with a gun. | god gun | Gregory David Roberts | |
| b298a52 | Plast proslosti sazdan je od komadica osecanja i sasiven nitima rebusa. Najvise sto mozemo da ucinimo, uglavnom, je da ga ogrnemo utehe radi, ili da ga vucemo za sobom dok se borimo da idemo dalje. Ali sve ima svoj uzrok i smisao. Svaki zivot, svaka ljubav, svako delo i osecanje, svaka misao ima svoj razlog i svoj znacaj: svoj pocetak i ulogu koju odigraju na kraju. Nekada zaista vidimo. Nekada vidimo proslost tako jasno, i cutimo objasnjen.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 71f3ecc | Jer je to ono sto cinimo. Iskoracimo jednom nogom, pa onda drugom. Jos jednom podignemo pogled ka rezanju i osmehu sveta. Mislimo. Delamo. Osecamo. Dajemo svoj maleni doprinos plimi i oseci dobra i zla koje plave svet i povlace se iz njega. Vucemo svoje nevidljive krstove ka nadi koju nosi jos jedna noc. Guramo svoja hrabra srca ka obecanju koje nosi novi dan. S ljubavlju: onom strasnom potragom za istinom mimo nase sopstvene. Sa ceznjom: t.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| e74eae9 | Nishcho ne priliaga taka v dlanta i ne e tolkova na miastoto si, i ne vd'khnoviava tolkova zakrilnicheskiia instinkt kato detskata r'ka. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 8b6b9e6 | 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 | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| d3d2080 | Wenn einen das Schicksal nicht zum Lachen bringt, dann hat man den Witz nicht kapiert. | humor life | Gregory David Roberts | |
| f56c6d0 | Nel mondo e tutto sbagliato, e la cosa peggiore che si possa fare e continuare a vivere. Eppure bisogna continuare a vivere. E questo dilemma che ci fa credere alla bugia che esistano un'anima e un Dio che si preoccupa delle sorti. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| ec5d607 | Black markets for things exist,' he said slowly, as if confiding a personal secret rather than a commercial fact, 'because the white markets are too strict. In this case, in the case of currencies, the government and the Reserve Bank of India control the white markets, and they're too strict. It's all about greed, and control. These are the two elements that make for commercial crime. Any one of them, on its own, is not enough. Greed withou.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 68b5b51 | There's a theory that snoring at night in sleep is a subconscious defence reflex--a warning sound that frightened potential predators away from the mouth of the cave when our lower-Palaeolithic ancestors huddled in vulnerable sleep. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| b4432bf | Millions of dreams were born there, around us, every day. Millions of dreams died there, and were born again. The humid air was thick with dreams, everywhere, in my Mumbai. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 96b7e5e | Lin, covek mora da nade dobru zenu i kad je nade mora da osvoji njenu ljubav. Onda mora da zaradi njeno postovanje. Onda mora da cuva njeno poverenje. I onda mora, ono, da nastavi to da radi dok je ziv. DOk oboje ne umru. U tome je cela sustina. To je najvaznije na svetu. To je muskarac. Muskarac je stvarno muskarac kad osvoji ljubav dobre zene, zaradi neno postovanje i zadrzi njeno poverenje. Dok to nisi u stanju da uradis, nisi muskarac. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| be36f34 | When I was arrested,' I said, 'I had to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. So, I've actually been certified sane enough to stand trial, which is more than I can say for most of the people I know, including the psychiatrist who certified me. In fact, to get convicted in a court of law, you've gotta be declared sane. Which means that every convict in the world, in a jail cell, is sane, A-Grade and Certified. And with so many people on the outs.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 8d8fac4 | I think it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering. | suffering | Gregory David Roberts | |
| b17749c | The trick in life is to want nothing. And then work our way towards achieving that. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 00b8cb7 | Didier once told me, in a rambling, midnight dissertation, that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 0ce1b66 | The truth is that there are no good men, or bad men,' he said. 'It is the deeds that have goodness or badness in them. There are good deeds, and bad deeds. Men are just men--it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The truth is that an instant of real love, in the heart of anyone--the noblest man alive or the most wicked--has the whole purpose and process and meaning of life within the lotus-folds of its passio.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| b6b0f09 | Tell people as much as they need to know, he said. I remember that he was smiling when he said it, like there was nothing to it. And ask people for help, he said. You'll be all right ... Don't worry ... It's a great adventure, your life, and it has only just begun ... | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 5759865 | 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. I | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 63009eb | I'd lost the mark on the psychic map that says You Are Here. 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. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 83f27f5 | When you're sober and fit, it's the world that's fucked. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 4552f09 | Depression only happens to people who don't know how to be sad. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| d49fb43 | Wenn man einem Mann zeigt, wie nichtig seine Hoffnung und sein Hoffen war, totet man den hellen bejahenden Teil in ihm, der geliebt werden mochte. | love | Gregory David Roberts | |
| c44c054 | Ein guter Mann ist so stark, wie er es fur die richtige Frau sein muss. | strength | Gregory David Roberts | |
| bb6f724 | The popular European and American caricature of Afghans as wild, bloodthirsty men--a description that delighted Afghans themselves endlessly when they heard it--was contradicted by every direct contact I had with them. Face to face, Afghan men were generous, friendly, honest, and scrupulously courteous to me. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 32dfb28 | A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 8f99149 | if we envy someone for all the right reasons, we're half way to wisdom. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| c0dd3a9 | Evening brings the people to their windows, balconies, and doorways. Evening fills the streets with strolling crowds. Evening is an indigo tent for the circus of the city, and families bring children to the entertainments that inspire every corner and crossroad. And evening is a chaperone for young lovers: the last hour of light before the night comes to steal the innocence from their slow promenades. There's no time, in the day or night, w.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| e069545 | But I didn't know that then. I washed my hands in the cold, uncaring sea, and my conscience was as silent and remote as the mute, unreachable stars. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| a8ad81c | I know now that when the loving, honest moment comes it should be seized, and spoken, because it may never come again. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 17288ae | Good doctors have at least three things in common: they know how to observe, they know how to listen, and they're very tired. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| b5386ef | I should've listened to her--she told me almost nothing, but she did give me clues, and I know now that she put signs in her words and expressions that were as clear as the constellations over our heads. But I didn't listen. It's 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... | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 9f65587 | we can only avoid chaos in the world of human affairs by having an agreed standard for the measure of a unit of morality. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| c95ba6c | I'm lonelier and wiser now, and I know it isn't cruelty or shame that characterises the human race. It's forgiveness that makes us what we are. Without forgiveness, our species would've annihilated itself in endless retributions. Without forgiveness, there would be no history. Without that hope, there would be no art, for every work of art is in some way an act of forgiveness. Without that dream, there would be no love, for every act of lov.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| bee0b2a | Fate needs accomplices, | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| caae85f | credit, security passes, and other documents. It was a booming trade in the booming economy of Bombay, and we often worked through the dawn to satisfy the demand. And the business was generational: as licensing authorities and other bodies | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 605aca9 | So, while fire and smoke singed the midnight sky, and bells and sirens railed about a kilometre away, we directed our men as they moved the heavy equipment into the new factory. And Krishna and Villu went to work almost at once. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 7ca899a | The statement I do not hate you is a poem of passionate love. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 745809a | I know now that when the loving, honest moment comes it should be seized, and spoken, because it may never come again. And unvoiced, unmoving, unlived in the things we declare from heart to heart, those true and real feelings wither and crumble in the remembering hand that tries too late to reach for them. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| e3c93dc | The contours of all our virtues are shaped by adversity. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| c309c56 | I looked at her for a while, reading the runes in her sky-blue eyes. Then I stood from the wall, held her in my arms, and kissed her. It was a long kiss. We lived out a life together in that kiss: we lived and loved and grew old together, and we died. Then our lips parted, and that life we might've had retreated, shrinking to a spark of light we would always recognise in one another's eyes. | Gregory David Roberts |