Shantaram
by
Fate needs accomplices, and the stones in destiny’s walls are mortared with small and heedless complicities such as those.
“You can be happy and afraid and angry in your dreams, but you have to be wide awake to be sad, don’t you think?”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“What we call cowardice is often just another name for being taken by surprise, and courage is seldom any better than simply being well prepared.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
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