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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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The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.
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I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others - and I am one of those - never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end.
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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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Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.
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Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
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Truth is a nebulous thing. There are certain, definite truths, but the truth of our lives goes far beyond facts.
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It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
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As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.
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Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.
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...for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.
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Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch?
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Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?
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Time is an illusion that makes us all pant.
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My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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What works in a story is very different than what works in cinema. For example, dialogue in books: If you translate it too faithfully, it sounds a little stilted, because we often don't speak the way we speak in novels. Oral language is much punchier, shorter sentences.
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The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to explore otherness, other realities. So the idea of a man exploring what it's like to be a woman doesn't strike me as being that wild or crazy an idea.
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