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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.
Yann Martel
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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.
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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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The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
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If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.
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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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Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.
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Religion? Mr Kumar grinned broadly. I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.
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Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.
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If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
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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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War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.
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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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I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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