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You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.

Yann Martel

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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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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To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
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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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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 find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
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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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If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!
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The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God
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The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles for expression, is the same thing. The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite.
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My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.
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It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaler as I grew older, train included. Now it's so small it fits in my head.
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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to explore otherness, other realities. So the idea of a man exploring what it's like to be a woman doesn't strike me as being that wild or crazy an idea.
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Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?
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As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.
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My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.
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Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid that no one wanted on their team.
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First wonder goes deepest wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.
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