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“Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting”
― Gregory David Roberts

“If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.”
― Gregory David Roberts

“Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“The truth is a bully we all pretend to like”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“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.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“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.”
― Gregory David Roberts

“Every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“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, Shantaram

“A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself.”
― Gregory David Roberts

“The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed. That's where loves, like elephants, drag themselves to die. It's the place where pride allows itself to cry.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“For all his wisdom, he did not know that love cannot be tested. Honesty can be tested and loyalty. But there is not test for love. Love goes on forever, once it begins, even if we come to hate the one we love. Love goes on forever because love is born in the part of us that does not die.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“It's isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“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.”
― Gregory David Roberts

“The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.”
― Gregory David Roberts

“And I'd learned, the hard way, that sometimes, even with the purest intentions, we make things worse when we do our best to make things better.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Remember,' Khader said insistently, resting his hand on my forearm to emphasise his words. 'Sometimes it is necessary to do the wrong thing for the right reasons. The important thing is to be sure that our reasons are right, and that we admit the wrong--that we do not lie to ourselves, and convince ourselves that what we do is right.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“What we call cowardice is often just another name for being taken by surprise, and courage is seldom any better than simply being well prepared.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“There is no act of faith more beautiful than the generosity of the very poor.”
― Gregory David Roberts

“Fear and guilt are the dark angels that haunt rich men, Khader said to me once. I wasn't sure if that was true, or if he simply wanted it to be true, but I did know from experience that despair and humiliation haunt the poor.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“I felt a darkness growing within me that was too numb for sorrow and too cold for rage.”
― gregory david roberts, Shantaram

“The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.”
― Gregory David Roberts , Shantaram

“Manchmal lieben wir nur mit der Hoffnung. Manchmal weinen wir mit allem ausser Tränen. Und am Ende bleiben nur: Liebe und ihre Pflicht, Trauer und ihre Wahrheit. Am Ende haben wir nichts anderes - nichts anderes, woran wir uns festhalten können, bis der Morgen dämmert.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Religion is just a long competition to see who can design the silliest hat.”
― Gregory David Roberts, The Mountain Shadow