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I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.

Yann Martel

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
Author
Novelist
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Death
Island
Live
Islands
Kind
Search
Life
Lonely
Physical
Comfort
Murderous
Half
Preferred
Spiritual
Perish

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