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It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.

Yann Martel

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.
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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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Most people take who they are, naturally, as a given, and they're interested in the sexual other, but not in being the sexual other. Most men are interested in women - whether sexually or not is not the question - but they don't necessarily want to be a woman.
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When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
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Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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But I want to pray to Allah. I want to be a Christian.
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I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you.
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The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
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How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?
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How does one say in the jargon of musicology that my sould was pulled out of me and thrown up in the air, to be tossed about by the music. How does one say that I breathed, that I existed, in harmony with the ups and downs of those notes. What kind of notes both elevate and cast down, exalt and crush?
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't feel the pain of others because they haven't imaginatively got under their skins.
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I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.
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Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.
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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
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It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.
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My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.
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The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's a good country to write from because in many ways Canada is the world.
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