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Never let anyone know what you're thinking - always know what the other thinks of you.

Gregory David Roberts

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Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
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Melbourne
Australia
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And money, if the pile gets high enough, is something like a big political party: it does as much harm as it does good, it puts too much power in too few hands, and the closer you come to it the dirtier you get.
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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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Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see.
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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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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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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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Anything that can be put in a nut shell should remain there.
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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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Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.
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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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Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.
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When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.
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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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justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.
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But I smiled, and smiling was easy, no matter how strange and disorienting the street seemed to be. I was a fugitive. I was a wanted man, a hunted man, with a price on my head. And I was still one step ahead of them. I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.
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Friendship is also a kind of medicine, and the markets for it, too, are sometimes black.
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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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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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Some of the worst wrongs, were caused by people who tried to change things.
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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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