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Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
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I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?
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Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits.
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Time is an illusion that makes us all pant.
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The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.
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How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing.
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There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God... These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.
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You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.
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The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.
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No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.
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Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.
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But I want to pray to Allah. I want to be a Christian.
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Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.
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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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To me, the research is a way of exploring what it means to be alive.
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My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.
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You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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