There's no such thing as forever.
The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.
The truth is that the man I am was born in those moments, as I stood near the flood sticks with my face lifted to the chrismal rain. Shantaram. The better man that, slowly, and much too late, I began to be.
Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.
But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no colour or accent or way of life. The soul is forever. The soul is one. And when the heart has its moment of truth and sorrow, the soul can't be stilled.
Didier once told me, in a rambling, midnight dissertation, that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.
The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.
There is nothing so depressing as good advice, and I will be pleased if you do not inflict it upon me. Frankly, I am shocked at you. You must know this, surely? Some years ago I suffered such an offensively gratuitous piece of good advice that I was depressed for six months afterward. It was a very close call - I almost never recovered.
Glory belongs to God, of course; that's what the word really means. And you can't serve God with a gun.
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.
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 wont stop loving them, even after they are dead and gone. for i still love you with the whole of my heart. i still love you. and sometimes, my friend, the love that i have and cant give to you, crushed the breast from my chest. soemtimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.
Never let anyone know what you're thinking - always know what the other thinks of you.
Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.
One, what would happen if everyone did this thing? Two, would this help or hinder the movement toward universal ultimate complexity?
Whatever you do, in the privacy of your own rain shower, is your own business
I think that we all, each one of us, we all have to earn our future.
but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.
Shantaram is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the first to be written. The third book is a sequel to Shantaram, the first a prequel.
Once you love something, you can never stop loving it. Even after a divorce, the heart will not stop loving.
While the foods were being prepared, I watched as men dragged a foot-operated grinding wheel into an open space, and the groom devoted a tense hour to putting a razor's edge to a large, ornate dagger. The bride's father watched that effort with a critical eye. After satisfying himself that the weapon was suitably lethal, he gravely accepted it as a gift from the younger man. The groom has just sharpened the knife that the bride's father will use on him, if he ever mistreats the girl.
A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.
I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.
It doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world.
The choking humidity makes amphibians of us all, in Bombay, breathing water in air; you learn to live with it, and you learn to like it, or you leave.
The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.
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