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...for everything has a trace of the divine in it.

Yann Martel

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.
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A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.
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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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My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.
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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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If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.
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What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell.
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Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.
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A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.
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A movie tends to box you in, at least as far as the aesthetics. You have an incredibly kinetic experience, which is the joy of cinema.
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How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.
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We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?
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Most of us get our history through story.
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We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.
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I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.
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My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
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I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.
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