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There's no such thing as forever.

Gregory David Roberts

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Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
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Melbourne
Australia
Forever
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but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.
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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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Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.
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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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We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years.
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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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Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.
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The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.
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There's a kind of luck that's not much more than being in the right place at the right time, a kind of inspiration that's not much more than doing the right thing in the right way, and both only really happen to you when you empty your heart of ambition, purpose, and plan when you give yourself, completely, to the golden, fate-filled moment.
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every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities.
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Never let anyone know what you're thinking - always know what the other thinks of you.
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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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Friendship is also a kind of medicine, and the markets for it, too, are sometimes black.
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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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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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Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.
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Ask people for help. You'll be all right. Don't worry. It's a great adventure, your life, and it has only just begun.
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More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.
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