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He's a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't feel the pain of others because they haven't imaginatively got under their skins.
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Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.
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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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If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!
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I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.
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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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My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell.
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We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.
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Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by
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Work, work, work, but what mark do we leave, what point do we make? People who are too beholden to work become like erasers: as things move forward, they leave in their wake no trace of themselves.
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No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.
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Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.
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It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.
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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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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.
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When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.
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The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.
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