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• It was a beauty that sours if it isn’t nourished by some goodness within.

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• Despotism despises nothing so much as righteousness in its victims.

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• It’s isn’t a secret, unless keeping it hurts.

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• The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.

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• There is an element of control we have over suffering.

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• They make a religion of being greedy.

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• The end mirrors the beginning. In the end, its about a woman & a city.

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• When the heart has its moment of truth & sorrow, the soul can’t be stilled.

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• The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.

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• Silences can wound as surely as the twisting lash.

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• Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.

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• Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.

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• Anything that can be put in a nutshell, should remain there.

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• Motive matters more with good deeds than it does with bad.

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• The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.

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• The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.

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• 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.

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• Justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

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• The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering.

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• Suffering is how we test our love especially our love for God.

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Gregory David Roberts (52)

Birth:	1952
Nationality:	Australian
Profession:	Novelist, Screenwriter

About

Gregory David Roberts was born in Melbourne, Australia. He is an Australian author best known for his novel Shantaram. He has written other books include: Crime and Refuge(with Hanne Nabintu Herland), and The Mountain Shadow(novel). He also written the original screenplay for the movie adaptation of Shantaram.

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