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There is a truth that is deeper than experience. It is beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It is an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception. We are helpless, usually, in the face of it; and the cost of knowing it, like the cost of knowing love, is sometimes greater than any heart would willingly pay. It does not always help to love the world, but it does prevent us from hating the world. And the only way to know the truth is to share it, from heart to heart.

Gregory David Roberts - “Shantaram”