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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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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way was up, who were in the thrall of reason, that fool's gold for the bright - reminded me of the three-toed sloth and the three-toed sloth, such a beautiful example of the miracle of life, reminded me of God.
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My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.
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It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.
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Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!
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Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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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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Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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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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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour - calm, quiet and introspective - did something to soothe my shattered self.
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High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.
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It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
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A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.
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Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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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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It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.
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Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them.
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I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.
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