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Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have.
Yann Martel
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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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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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My greatest wish β other than salvation β was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.
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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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Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.
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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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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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Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and trod me underfoot one after another.
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You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.
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Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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Bapu Gandhi said, βAll religions are true.β I just want to love God.
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We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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