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Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.

Gregory David Roberts

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Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
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Melbourne
Australia
Body
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Its 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. I loved her voice, but I didn't really hear the fear & the anguish in it.
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A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water
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I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.
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when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.
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Friendship is also a kind of medicine, and the markets for it, too, are sometimes black.
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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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Suffering is how we test our love especially our love for God.
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Anything that can be put in a nut shell should remain there.
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The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, your heart always guides you more wisely than your head. There's nowhere else in the world where that's quite so true.
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One, what would happen if everyone did this thing? Two, would this help or hinder the movement toward universal ultimate complexity?
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More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.
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nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.
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The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering.
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At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone.
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Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.
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What is it? she asked. I'm looking for your wings. You are my guardian angel, aren't you? I'm afraid not, she replied, her cheeks dimplingwith a wry smile. There's too much of the devil in me for that. Just how much devil, I grinned, are we talking about here?
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Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.
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Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.
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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.
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Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.
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