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Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
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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.
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I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.
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If we can't respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can't use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose.
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Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.
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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 a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get it's something you give
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You can never tell what people have inside them until you start taking it away, one hope at a time
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Once you love something, you can never stop loving it. Even after a divorce, the heart will not stop loving.
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A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.
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Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.
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Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do.
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The truth is a bully we all pretend to like
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Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.
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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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Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.
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The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love
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When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.
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Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.
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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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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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