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Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

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Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
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Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.
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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.
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I look back, now, and I know that the naming moment, which seemed so insignificant then, which seemed to demand no more than an arbitrary and superstitious yes or no, was in fact a pivotal moment in my life.
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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.
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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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None of us lie or guard our secrets when we sing, and India is a nation of singers whose first love is the kind of song we turn to when crying just isn't enough.
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It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.
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Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.
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Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.
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The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.
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I think the future is like anything else that's important. It has to be earned. If we don't earn it, we don't have a future at all. And if we don't earn it, we don't deserve it, we have to live in the present, more or less forever. Or worse, we have to live in the past. I think that's probably what love is - a way of earning the future.
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