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Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.

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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Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality - you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.
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I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.
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Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.
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Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.
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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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You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on!
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It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
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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 commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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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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When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.
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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 love Canada. Its a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?
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Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. They prove to be the ones most faithful to them…it is a fact commonly known in the trade.
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A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.
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There is nothing more satisfying than having a sentence fall into place in a way you feel is right, and then adding another one and then another one. It's extraordinarily satisfying.
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