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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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It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.
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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.
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My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.
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The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.
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As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.
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Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror.
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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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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour - calm, quiet and introspective - did something to soothe my shattered self.
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If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?
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A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.
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Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.
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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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It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.
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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.
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[The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present and everyone else is a citizen who must decide on that animal's future (...) The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.
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The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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He's a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.
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I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.
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