Freiheit

Ein Buch, das so beginnt, lädt zum Weiterlesen ein. Oder auch nicht. Mich hat es unbedingt zum Weiterlesen eingeladen, auch wenn die Lektüre lange dauern wird. Zu Ende ist der Roman "Shantaram" des Australiers Gregory David Roberts in meiner Ausgabe nach 933 Seiten.

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It took me a long time an 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 realized, somehow, through the screaming in 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 an bite of the chain, when it's all you've got, that freedom is a universe of possibility. And the choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your live.