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The presence of God is the finest of rewards.

Yann Martel

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving. I was weeping because ....fill in the blank with whatever/whoever helped you survive... had left me so unceremoniously.
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Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.
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Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
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science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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I felt I was beating a rainbow to death
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My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
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My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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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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We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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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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My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.
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Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.
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My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.
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There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.
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Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have.
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