understood that people would do almost anything to not feel pain, including causing pain and abusing power, and I understood that there were very few people who could handle being held accountable for causing hurt without rationalizing,
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“the discipline and abstraction of putting my life into words, every day, helped me to cope with shame and its first cousin, despair.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram

“In matters of food I am French, in matters of love I am Italian, and in matters of business I am Swiss.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram

“Love is the opposite of power. That’s why we fear it so much.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram

“The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram

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Aditya’s 2024 Year in Books
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