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The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.

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Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
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Melbourne
Australia
Love
Afghan
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The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.
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People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.
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In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. And yet you must survive. It is this dilemma that makes us believe and cling to the lie that we have a soul, and that there is a God who cares about its fate.
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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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You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.
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I think that we all, each one of us, we all have to earn our future.
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Silence is the tortured man's revenge.
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I went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else's hate, or love, or indifference.
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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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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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The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.
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Sometimes, you have to surrender before you win.
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Nobody who has done business in any country with an Indian would doubt the shrewdness of Indians, but what Indian people bring to the world is something special and unique, which is the capacity for a loving interaction.
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Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do.
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Praising people behind their back is monstrously unfair, because the one thing you can't defend yourself against is the good that people say about you.
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every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities.
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Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.
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Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.
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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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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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