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“The more intelligent you become the more problems you’ll have, Charlie. Your intellectual growth is going to outstrip your emotional growth.
“Without a good woman, a man like you - men like you and me - we're just asking for trouble, yaar.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“It's a very sad thing, to be in no hurry, and I would not be so free in admitting it, if I were you,' he said, still staring at the bottle. When he wasn't smiling his face looked flabby, slack, and pallid grey. He was unwell, but it was the kind of unwell you have to work at. 'We have saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“I sat alone, on a boulder that was larger and flatter than most, and I smoked a cigarette. I smoked in those days because, like everyone else in the world who smokes, I wanted to die at least as much as I wanted to live.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“I told him,' she said, 'that a good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness, and shame, and sorrow. But 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. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
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