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When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
Yann Martel
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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way was up, who were in the thrall of reason, that fool's gold for the bright - reminded me of the three-toed sloth and the three-toed sloth, such a beautiful example of the miracle of life, reminded me of God.
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Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.
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I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It's a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred.
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If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?
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I chose the name Pi because it's an irrational number (one with no discernable pattern). Yet scientists use this irrational number to come to a rational understanding of the universe. To me, religion is a bit like that, irrational yet with it we come together we come to a sound understanding of the universe.
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As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.
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I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.
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The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God
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My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles for expression, is the same thing. The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite.
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How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.
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Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.
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Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.
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People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar. We need that in our lives, the mix of the new and the old. But of course I'm flattered about the comparison with Old man and the sea. Hemingway is a great writer.
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I love Canada. Its a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
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It's hard to visualize James Bond without seeing one of the actors who played him. And it's hard to visualize Harry Potter without seeing Daniel Radcliffe. A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.
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High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.
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