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The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.
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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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Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.
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Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that's why we should change it. I didn't say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.
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I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
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We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?
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Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
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Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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I couldn't get Him out of my head. Still can't. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me, the less I coul forget Him. And the more I learned about Him, the less I wanted to leave Him.
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