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Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
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Melbourne
Australia
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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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Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.
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Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.
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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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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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Powerful people have no regrets.
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The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.
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Some of the worst wrongs, were caused by people who tried to change things.
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When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.
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It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\
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I think that we all, each one of us, we all have to earn our future.
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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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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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The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.
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It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.
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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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Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.
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Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.
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Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.
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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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