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Christianity is a religion in a rush.

Yann Martel

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims.
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To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
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Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.
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science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?
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My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.
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Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.
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I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?
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Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey.
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Work, work, work, but what mark do we leave, what point do we make? People who are too beholden to work become like erasers: as things move forward, they leave in their wake no trace of themselves.
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
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