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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
Yann Martel
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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It's a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred.
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Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.
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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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My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God became nothing to me but a dyslexic dog, with neither bark nor bite.
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My ears were full. Nothing more, not one more sound, could push into them and be registered.
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Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.
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I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say Oh, I don't read much fiction, as if the history of the United States, just as an example, isn't an exercise in storytelling and myth-making.
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We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?
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No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.
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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.
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You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?
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It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.
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