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My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.

Yann Martel

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Religion? Mr Kumar grinned broadly. I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.
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Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?
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Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.
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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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Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.
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How does one say in the jargon of musicology that my sould was pulled out of me and thrown up in the air, to be tossed about by the music. How does one say that I breathed, that I existed, in harmony with the ups and downs of those notes. What kind of notes both elevate and cast down, exalt and crush?
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Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
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Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are two lows of nature. If you don’t let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood! I am utterly convinced of this.
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The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to explore otherness, other realities. So the idea of a man exploring what it's like to be a woman doesn't strike me as being that wild or crazy an idea.
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No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.
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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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I love Canada...It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos.
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Religion is more than rite and ritual.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.
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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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It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.
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There's no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day.
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