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It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.
Yann Martel
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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.
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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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The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.
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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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Come aboard if your destination is oblivion- it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat if you want. But it's a sad view.
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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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I love Canada...It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos.
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Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.
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That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?
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But I want to pray to Allah. I want to be a Christian.
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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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Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are two lows of nature. If you don’t let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood! I am utterly convinced of this.
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What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell.
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If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?
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I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you.
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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 lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.
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