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Shantaram
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An Australian fugitive finds adventure and redemption in the slums of Bombay.

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Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you live with them.

Gregory David Roberts

lonelinesstruthshame

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.

Gregory David Roberts

fatelovefriendship

The truth is a bully we all pretend to like.

Gregory David Roberts

truthpretense

There’s a truth deeper than experience. It’s beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It’s an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception.

Gregory David Roberts

truthreality

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

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tragedydesire

Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy things.

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happinessconsumerism

The terrible irony of our education is that we learn too late that things we thought were castles were nothing but prisons.

Gregory David Roberts

educationrealization

The heart has no desire that the mind cannot fashion into a dream.

Gregory David Roberts

heartminddreams

We are taught that the worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.

Gregory David Roberts

lonelinesscompanionship

We don't make love, love makes us.

Gregory David Roberts

loveidentity