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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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Notorious
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Life

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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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At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone.
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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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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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The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.
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There's no such thing as forever.
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The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.
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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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Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.
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Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.
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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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The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.
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A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water
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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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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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Once you love something, you can never stop loving it. Even after a divorce, the heart will not stop loving.
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Friendship is also a kind of medicine, and the markets for it, too, are sometimes black.
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Never let anyone know what you're thinking - always know what the other thinks of you.
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The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love
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There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.
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