Book: Shantaram. Page 4

... reality as it appears before you and most people, just an illusion. What our eyes see, there is another reality, and it must be felt with the heart. There is no other way.

To say that the human soul is possible only after will start to take away his one hope after another.

The lies with which we try to fool ourselves, raises the ghosts that inhabit an empty house at night.

Fear the mouth dries up the man, but hatred does not breathe. Clearly, therefore, in the Treasury of world literature no books born of hatred: the genuine fear and genuine hatred is unable to Express himself with words.

... each addressed to me smile was obtained by fraud. When you live outside the law, in your laughter always echoes lie, every act of love gets kind of theft.

That's probably why I love to sleep... When you sleep, you can't be truly sad.

Ask any man who has behind him a long prison sentence, and he will tell you that there is nothing that hardens the human heart how the law enforcement system.

Pain without suffering is like victory without struggle.

Friendship is also a kind of medicine, and the market where you get it, too, is black.

As Didier put it during one of the endless midnight conversations in the dream, our desires to meet our fears. "And when your desire and your fear - the same thing - he said, - it's called nightmare."

I looked at the surrounding drenched the world and thought about the river that flows in all of us, wherever we lived. This is the river of our hearts, for our heart desires. It's clean, the deepest truth that shows us who we are and what can achieve.

Her life, with all joys and sorrows, came upon my as easy and simple as her red shawl hid sometimes a crying child who crosses the threshold of her house.

Sometimes you get lucky so be in the right place at the right time and make on a whim is exactly what you need and exactly what you need. But it is necessary to forget their ambition, ambitious thoughts and plans and give a magical momentous moment.

- Look, why don't you drink? I can't stand when people pull and pull all the same glass. It's like that to wear a condom when I masturbate.