“Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that’s all there is: love and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that’s all we have - to hold on tight until the dawn”Шантарам... Книга, с которой еще до ее прочтения у меня сложились очень непростые отношения. На которую в магазине я смотрела несколько лет и по какой-то неведомой мне причине не решалась купить.
Но когда я была в прекрасном магазине английской литературы, который я нашла в Праге, и мой взгляд наткнулся на эту книгу, сомнений не было. Мне нужно ее прочесть именно сейчас.
И когда очаровательная женщина на кассе ( с нереально родным британским акцентом) сказала, что эта книга ее любимая и это произведение испортило ее для других книг, это еще более утвердило мое мнение.
Сначала я читала ее очень медленно. Может пугал объем - почти 1000 страниц, а может сначала я просто не могла проникнуться этим миром. Но после определенного момента, я даже уже не помню какого, оторвать меня было невозможно.
И сейчас могу с уверенностью сказать, это - одна из ЛУЧШИХ книг, прочитанных в моей жизни.
Многие делают акцент на том, что эта книга об Индии, для меня это книга о людях. Да, я провела все это время, погруженная в невероятный мир этой страны, улочки и трущобы Бомбея, мир мафии и ужасы войны, но в первую очередь меня поражали невероятно живые персонажи, которые несут в себе столько мудрости и жизненных уроков - о любви, дружбе, семье, потерях, верном выборе, о добре и зле, религии, войне.
И это та книга, которая проникает в сердце и переворачивает сознание, каждая страница которой пропитана любовью, в той или иной ее форме.
"Шантарам" учит нас принимать и любить людей, учит верить им, а не сомневаться в каждом, учит, что месть приносит куда больше вреда тому, кто ее несет в себе, чем тому, на кого она направлена, учит уметь прощать других и, что более важно, себя, учит отпускать и принимать жизнь такой, какая она есть - ведь "каждое биение сердца - это вселенная возможностей".
Это история всепоглощающей веры. История любви. История войны. История прощения.
Если вы любите читать, то эту книгу вы должны прочесть!
Цитаты“Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.”
“Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.”
“She loved the guy. She did it for him. She would’ve done anything for him. Some people are like that. Some loves are like that. Most loves are like that, from what I can see. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and your independence. After a while you start throwing people out—your friends, everyone you used to know. And it’s still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, and you know it’s going to take you down with it. I’ve seen that happen to a lot of people here. I think that’s why I’m sick of love.”
“It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured. I realised, somehow, through the screaming of my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It doesn’t sound like much, I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when it’s all you’ve got, that freedom is an universe of possibility. And the choice you make between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.”
“A man has to find a good woman, and when he finds her he has to win her love. then he has to earn her respect. then he has to cherish her trust. and then he has to, like, go on doing that for as long as they live. Until they both die. That's what it's all about. That's the most important thing in the world. That's what a man is, Yaar. A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you do that, you're not a man.”
“at first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. what we should fear and dread, of course, is that we wont stop loving them, even after they are dead and gone. for i still love you with the whole of my heart. i still love you. and sometimes, my friend, the love that i have and cant give to you, crushed the breast from my chest. soemtimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.”
“It's forgiveness that makes us what we are. Without forgiveness, our species would've annihilated itself in endless retributions. Without forgiveness, there would be no history. Without that hope, there would be no art, for every work of art is in some way an act of forgiveness. Without that dream, there would be no love, for every act of love is in some way a promise to forgive. We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.”
“Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give”
"For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push our brave hearts into the promise of a new day. With love; the passionate search for truth other than our own. With longing; the pure, ineffable yearning to be saved. For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on.”
“But in a way you can say that after leaving the sea, after all those millions of years of living inside of the sea, we took the ocean with us. When a woman makes a baby, she gives it water, inside her body, to grow in. That water inside her body is almost exactly the same as the water of the sea. It is salty, by just the same amount. She makes a little ocean, in her body. And not only this. Our blood and our sweating, they are both salty, almost exactly like the water from the sea is salty. We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.”
“Ask people for help. You’ll be all right. Don’t worry. It’s a great adventure, your life, and it has only just begun…”
“The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it."
“It doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world.”
“The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love”
“I think that it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering. I think that when we grow up, and learn that happiness is rare, and passes quickly, we become disillusioned and hurt. And how much we suffer is a mark of how much we have been hurt by this realisation. Suffering, you see, is a kind of anger. We rage against the unfairness, the injustice of our sad and sorry lot.”
“For all his wisdom, he did not know that love cannot be tested. Honesty can be tested and loyalty. But there is not test for love. Love goes on forever, once it begins, even if we come to hate the one we love. Love goes on forever because love is born in the part of us that does not die.”
“Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.”
“I think the future is like anything else that's important. It has to be earned. If we don't earn it, we don't have a future at all. And if we don't earn it, we don't deserve it, we have to live in the present, more or less forever. Or worse, we have to live in the past. I think that's probably what love is - a way of earning the future.”
"The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.”
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16.03.2015 в 08:45А на английском она легко читается?
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16.03.2015 в 08:53-
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16.03.2015 в 13:46Читается на английском прекрасно. И думаю, что перевод очень книгу испортил на самом деле...
how_to_breathe, видимо у всех такая история)) Она стоит ожидания и хождения вокруг. Книга с большой буквы!
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16.03.2015 в 14:32Да , представляю о чем ты говоришь, у меня такое со старыми книгами бывает, вроде куча новых, а нет, хочу вот именно те эмоции
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16.03.2015 в 19:42Да , представляю о чем ты говоришь, у меня такое со старыми книгами бывает, вроде куча новых, а нет, хочу вот именно те эмоции
я верю, что книги находят нас в нужный момент.