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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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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.
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It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.
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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.
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It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.
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My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.
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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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It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
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Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by
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What works in a story is very different than what works in cinema. For example, dialogue in books: If you translate it too faithfully, it sounds a little stilted, because we often don't speak the way we speak in novels. Oral language is much punchier, shorter sentences.
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The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.
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A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.
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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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I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
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Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.
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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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It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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Christianity is a religion in a rush.
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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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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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If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.
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