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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
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Afghan
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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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The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering.
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Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.
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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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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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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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We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.
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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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every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities.
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So when will be the time to get on the train? I think.....a little bit almost quite very soon and not long.
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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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Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.
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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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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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Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.
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Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.
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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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The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.
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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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The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.
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