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You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on!

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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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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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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If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.
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Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.
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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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Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.
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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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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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...if you fall into a lion's pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it's hungry-be assured, zoo animals are amply fed-or because it's bloodthirsty, but because you've invaded it's 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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Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
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We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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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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Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid that no one wanted on their team.
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Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.
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In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.
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Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.
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It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.
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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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As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.
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