Shantaram
by
Fate needs accomplices, and the stones in destiny’s walls are mortared with small and heedless complicities such as those.


“It’s unreasonable and unjustified, of course, but it’s always there, hiding in the long shadow thrown by envy.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram

“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

“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

“No-one, and nothing, could make me very happy. I was tough, which is probably the saddest thing you can say about a man.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram

“Civilisation, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
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