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  1. Gregory David Roberts _ Shantaram

    Приятелството е и вид лекарство и пазарите за него понякога също са черни.
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  2. Gregory David Roberts _ Shantaram

    Ако съдбата не те разсмива, ти просто не схващаш шегата.
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  3. Gregory David Roberts _ Shantaram

    It was as if I'd found myself in a performance of some extravagant, complex drama, and I didn't have a script.
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  4. Gregory David Roberts _ Shantaram

    The pages were dog-eared, and heavily annotated in Karla's own hand. {...} She consumed her books, I saw. She devoured her books, and was unafraid to mark them, even to scar them, with her own comments and system of references.
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  5. Gregory David Roberts _ Shantaram

    … let yourself go. Sometimes, in India, you have to surrender before you win.
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  6. Gregory David Roberts _ Shantaram

    his struggle there to love and to be loved in return, and his drag-footed walk along the shoreline of his Fate are the fragments of his shipwreck survival.
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  7. Gregory David Roberts _ Shantaram

    There is nothing so depressing as good advice, and I will be pleased if you do not inflict it upon me.
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  8. Gregory David Roberts _ Shantaram

    What I am saying is that reality-as you see it, and as most people see it-is nothing more than an illusion. There is another reality, beyond what we see with our eyes. You have to feel your way into that reality with your heart. There is no other way.
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  9. Gregory David Roberts _ Shantaram

    A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man."
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  10. Gregory David Roberts _ Shantaram

    But reason didn't play a big part in the guilt I'd felt, deep in my heart, since the moment I'd seen his dead face beneath its shroud of snow. Once I'd faced it, I couldn't shake the shame. And somehow, the blame and repining sorrow changed me. I felt the vengeful stone fall from the hating hand that had wanted to throw it. I felt light, as if light itself filled me and lifted me up. And I felt free - free enough to pity Madame Zhou, and even to forgive her.
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  11. Gregory David Roberts _ Shantaram

    Whatever the reason, I felt dishearteningly alone in the city. I'd lost Prakabar and Abdullah, my closest friends, in the same week, and with them 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.
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  12. Gregory David Roberts _ Shantaram

    The world and I are not on speaking terms, Karla said to me once in those early months. The world keeps trying to win me back, she said, but it doesn't work. I guess I'm just not the forgiving type.
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