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Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.

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Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
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Melbourne
Australia
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nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.
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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 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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The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.
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Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.
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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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